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FDA considers removing ineffective cold medicine ingredient
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering removing oral phenylephrine, a common ingredient in ...
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FDA Plans to Ban Ineffective Cold Medicine Ingredient—How It Will Affect You
The FDA had proposed removing phenylephrine, a widely used ingredient to treat nasal congestion, from over-the-counter cold ...
Lemsip and other cold and flu decongestants are ‘not effective’ as experts call for them be pulled from shelves
LEMSIP and other popular cold and flu tablets should be pulled from Britain’s shelves because they don’t work, experts have ...
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Which Decongestants Are Effective? Why the FDA Wants to Pull a Popular Medicine Ingredient
Phenylephrine is included in many cold and flu products, but a scientific panel last year found that it doesn't really do its job at "unstuffing" when taken by mouth. Jessica is a writer on the ...
Cold-and-flu remedies could be banned in US as experts say ingredient is not effective
Phenylephrine is the main decongestant ingredient in soluble and tablet-form cold-and-flu medicines such as Lemsip, Beechams, ...
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How to Navigate OTC Cold and Flu Drugs
Opens in a new tab or window The cold and flu aisles of pharmacies are bursting with options ... found in popular products ...
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Popular cold medications don’t work, say experts, as US considers ban
A pharmacy drugs expert says many popular cold and flu remedies should be banned because they are ... The ingredient is in ...
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Phenylephrine Vs. Pseudoephedrine: Doctors Explain Which Cold Medicine Is Most Effective
In 2006, the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act was signed into law. This law bans sales of OTC cold medicines with ...
FDA proposes removing ineffective decongestant found in NyQuil, Benadryl, Sudafed and Mucinex
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing the removal from the market of a common ingredient found in most oral ...
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FDA wants to scrap Benadryl and Sudafed from pharmacies after finding drugs are useless against colds
The FDA wants to pull common cold and flu medications from drugstore shelves ... certain types of Sudafed and Benadryl - in nonprescription products because it 'is not effective' The FDA began ...