According to Sharon Levy, MD, Harvard Medical School's pediatric addiction expert, nonmedical medication misuse may be much more common than previously reported. One of the older fads is in the news ...

CVS is removing cough and cold medicines containing an ingredient found to be ineffective from their store shelves. Advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found last month that the ...

Dec. 16, 2002 — -- Parents concerned about whether their children are abusing drugs might also want to keep their medicine cabinets under lock and key. Across the country, children and teens are ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A common cold medicine has been deemed ineffective and to no longer be purchased. The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday its intention to remove oral phenylephrine, a ...

When you’re feeling awful because of a cold, you just want something to fix you—if not to cure you, at least to help you temporarily feel better. Unfortunately a lot of remedies are placebos, but some ...

CVS said on Thursday that it is voluntarily removing certain common oral cough and cold products after a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel determined last month that its active ...

Last year, people in the US bought approximately 242 million packages of oral over-the-counter cough, cold, and allergy remedies containing phenylephrine from retail stores, according to sales data ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, which means cold and flu season is here. But before you reach for your go-to flu or cold medicine, you may need to consider pairing it with a nasal spray ...

When pregnant, cold and flu season can be particularly challenging because you never quite know which medications are safe to take. While some over-the-counter (OTC) medications get the “green light” ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina -- When a professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy heard the story of a Raleigh man accused of murdering his wife, her ears immediately perked up. That's because in a 911 call ...