It's common in over-the-counter cold and flu medicines, but it doesn't work. This is the ingredient the FDA plans to pull ...

Many popular over-the-counter cold and flu remedies risk being pulled from shelves in the US after its drug regulator ruled a ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to remove from the market a common ingredient found in most oral over-the ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed to remove oral phenylephrine, widely used in cold and cough syrups.

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 ...

The approach to treating the flu, regardless of type, revolves around relieving symptoms and supporting the body’s natural defenses, Dr. Liu said. There are four approved antiviral medications ...

The optimal time to get your seasonal flu shot, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is right now: flu ...

Health officials say it's important to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the holidays when respiratory bugs tend to ...

a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Symptoms of the common cold are incredibly similar, which is why people tend to “call everything that’s in the winter the flu ...

"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 ...

Treatments for the Flu The goal of treatment is to reduce flu symptoms and avoid complications. Most people do not need treatment for the flu. Your immune system typically fights off the virus ...