The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to pull awidely used ingredientin cough and cold medicines from the market, after the agency's scientists concluded that the oral version of the drug is ineffective as a nasal decongestant.The FDA's proposal comes more than...
“The first step in getting over a common cold is to ensure that it’s actually a common cold,” Dr. Stuart C. Ray, vice chair of medicine for data integrity and analytics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told TODAY. “A common cold doesn’t cause fever, shortness ...
So cold medicine isn’t effective against symptoms? Not exactly. Not all cold medicines are based on oral phenylephrine or only oral phenylephrine. What the committee found was that oral phenylephrine-only medications are ineffective at treating cold and flu symptoms. What about ...
Anemia due to lack of an essential ingredient such as iron or vitamins in the diet or the inability of the intestine to absorb them. Synonym: nutritional anemia Diamond-Blackfan anemia See: Diamond-Blackfan anemia erythroblastic anemia Anemia resulting from inheritance of a recessive trait responsibl...
A placebo is a thing used in drug trials (often a sugar pill) that’s administered as if it were medicine, but has no active ingredient. It’s meant to tease out the effects of a real drug compared to the slight amount that people feel better when they think they’re taking medicine...
Abrevacontains ten percent(%) Docosanol, a unique patented active ingredient that helps protect cells from the virus. As Abreva helps the healthy cells keep the cold sores virus, it has the difficult to infecting more cells. This means the cold sores heal quick, and symptoms do not last as...
The common cold is a common and frequent respiratory disease mainly caused by viral infection of the upper respiratory tract. Chinese herbal medicine has been increasingly prescribed to treat the common cold; however, there is a lack of evidence to suppo
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to pull awidely used ingredientin cough and cold medicines from the market, after the agency's scientists concluded that the oral version of the drug is ineffective as a nasal decongestant. ...
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to pull awidely used ingredientin cough and cold medicines from the market, after the agency's scientists concluded that the oral version of the drug is ineffective as a nasal decongestant. ...
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to pull awidely used ingredientin cough and cold medicines from the market, after the agency's scientists concluded that the oral version of the drug is ineffective as a nasal decongestant. ...