Cold and Cough

...modifying the product labels for consumers of OTC cough and cold medicines to state "do not use" in children under 4 years of age..

Coughing is a sudden expulsion of air from the lungs through the epiglottis at an amazingly fast speed (estimated at 100 miles per hour).

Health officials began investigating the outbreak after six infants were identified in the first half of June 2004 with symptoms consistent with whooping cough,

Company manufactures and distributes unapproved and adulterated drugs

Agency gives new safety information on proper use of Tussionex as a cough suppressant

That should save the lives of 5,000 children a year, the authors estimated

Two children died from influenza in upstate New York in the past two weeks, just as 11 states reported widespread flu activity across the U.S.

A small but significant percentage of the main influenza virus causing illness this winter in Europe, Canada and the United States has a mutation that makes it resistant ...