FDA considers removing ineffective cold medicine ingredient
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering removing oral phenylephrine, a common ingredient in many ...
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Multiple Over-the-Counter Decongestants May Be Pulled from the Market, Warns the FDA
For those sniffling, sneezing, stuffy head symptoms lurking right around the corner, see whether your preferred medicine will ...
These Cold & Flu Medicines Contain an Ingredient the FDA Plans to Ban
The FDA proposed a ban on phenylephrine, a common decongestant found in cold and cough medications. Here’s why and a list of ...
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Gefapixant Reduces CSUI in Chronic Cough
The following is a summary of “Efficacy and safety of gefapixant in women with chronic cough and cough-induced stress urinary incontinence: a phase 3b, randomised, multicentre, double-blind, ...
Does Phenylephrine Work? Effective Alternatives as FDA Moves to Ban Ingredient in OTC Decongestants
Common decongestants may soon be pulled from shelves. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Wednesday its proposal ...
FDA seeks to remove ingredient from cold medicines after data shows it does not work
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking the first step to remove an ingredient in non-prescription cold medicines ...
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Dog with chronic cough saved thanks to Shania Twain
A dog struck down with a chronic cough after inhaling grass was saved when his owners noticed he wasn’t 'singing along' to ...
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Washington state reports nearly 1,200 whooping cough cases so far this year
This year could shape up to be the worst year for whooping cough Washington has seen in over a decade. State health officials counted 1,193 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, across 31 counties as ...
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Bengal Police seizes 54,000 bottles of contraband cough syrup worth Rs 8 crore
Listen to Story Police seized 54,000 bottles of cough syrup worth over Rs 8 crore Abu Taher from Assam arrested for smuggling cough syrup bottles Police intercepted truck with contraband hidden under ...
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Whooping cough reported in Cumberland schools
SAD 51 is dealing with a minor outbreak of whooping cough, according to Superintendent Jeff Porter, and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is monitoring the situation.