The FDA had proposed removing phenylephrine, a widely used ingredient to treat nasal congestion, from over-the-counter cold ...

Yesterday, US health officials proposed getting rid of oral drugs containing the decongestant phenylephrine over concerns ...

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) said on Thursday that they will seek to pull the ...

CBS News: FDA To Pull Common But Ineffective Cold Medicine From Market The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to pull a widely used ingredient in cough and cold ...

Any correlation between the decongestant and the pain I experienced ... In older men, decongestants can prevent them from ...

Any correlation between the decongestant and the pain I experienced ... In older men, decongestants can prevent them from ...

The FDA announced a proposal to remove oral phenylephrine — a common ingredient in many popular over-the-counter decongestants — from the market, citing evidence that it doesn’t work.

I weight 185 pounds, exercise regularly, and am in overall very good health. I take 5 mg of Crestor and a multivitamin daily. I recently took a generic 12-hour, maximum-strength nasal decongestant to ...

The latest data shows that only a tiny fraction of phenylephrine is absorbed into the body when digested from a pill or syrup ...

Following a review of available data, the agency determined that phenylephrine, when taken orally, does not actually work as ...

It was added to cold and flu remedies in the 1990s when another ingredient went behind the counter over illicit meth lab concerns.