The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed an order to ban a popular ingredient in cold and flu medicines as it is seemingly not as effective as other methods. Oral phenylephrine is often ...
The FDA is proposing many popular over-the-counter cold and allergy medications be removed from store shelves. The agency says a common ingredient they share, phenylephrine, doesn’t actually relieve ...
"If you come in with some symptoms of cough or sore throat or runny nose, whatever it is, I can't tell you if that's a cold, if it's walking pneumonia, if it's COVID or the flu. You do need to ...
The cold and flu are common respiratory (breathing) illnesses, but different viruses cause them. More than 200 viruses can cause a cold, with rhinovirus being the most common. Influenza viruses ...
Every year when cold weather starts up, health experts start talking about how important it is to get a flu shot. And every year, some people say that the flu isn’t so bad—until they get it.