It’s easy to understand how a medicine like phenylephrine got onto pharmacy shelves in the first place. The common decongestant, used most often as an ingredient in multidrug cold medications like ...

Does a common ingredient used in many over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines actually work to get rid of nasal congestion? That’s the question the Food and Drug Administration will pose to a ...

An advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration stated today that virtually all over-the-counter decongestants simply don’t work. The FDA panel found that phenylephrine — the active ingredient ...

As the temperatures cool, the season of colds, flu, and now Covid-19 is heating up. If you’re like many people, you’ve probably stocked up on over-the-counter cold medicine to help thwart the cough ...