Phenylephrine is a medication that’s been used to relieve nasal congestion caused by colds, allergies, and hay fever, per the ...

Phenylephrine is included in many cold and flu products, but a scientific panel last year found that it doesn't really do its ...

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“The key is that you need about two weeks for your body to build up immunity to the flu,” Erin Muckey, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently ruled that the main decongestant ingredient in popular cold and flu medicines, phenylephrine, is not an effective nasal decongestant. Phenylephrine ...

"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 ...

Everyone 6 months and older is advised to get the updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines and the updated 2024-2025 flu vaccines ... News and clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical ...

Jack Kann, RPh, MPA, MBA, director of pharmacy at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, New York, told MedPage Today that the best approach to cold and flu medicine is matching the ...

A pig has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu in a backyard farm in Oregon. Pigs can host both bird and human flu viruses, which can make them a dangerous "mixing bowl." Flu season can also heighten the ...

H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in wastewater collected from a plant in Carson. L.A. County public health officials say the risk to the public remains low. The source of the virus has not ...

When the USDA issued an announcement on Oct. 30 that the worrisome H5N1 bird flu turned up in a pig, I dropped what I was doing to read it. The situation didn’t quite match the nightmare ...