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Some medications contain a combination of a decongestant and an antihistamine. If you’re not sure what to take, talk with your health care provider about your symptoms, other drugs you take, and ...

Decongestants narrow the blood vessels in your nasal passages, reducing swelling and sinus pressure. Two common decongestant drugs are phenylephrine and pseudoephedrine. Phenylephrine is no longer ...

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 ...

The FDA's nasal decongestants drug list, or monograph, has not been updated since 1995. The process for changing a monograph has traditionally taken years or decades, requiring multiple rounds of ...

I t’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 ...

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration agreed unanimously on Tuesday that a common decongestant ingredient used in many over-the-counter cold medicines is ineffective.

For years, doctors and pharmacists have said the oral decongestant phenylephrine, found in drugs including Sudafed PE, isn't actually effective. Get more news. on. Sept. 8, 2023, 3:34 PM EDT.

Cold season just got trickier. On Tuesday, an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously said that a popular ingredient found in oral cold and allergy decongestants is ...

The FDA’s nasal decongestants drug list, or monograph, has not been updated since 1995. The process for changing a monograph has traditionally taken years or decades, requiring multiple rounds ...

This week, an advisory panel to the FDA voted 16–0 that the drug is ineffective orally, which could pave the way for the agency to finally pull the drug. If so, the impact would be huge.

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration declared Tuesday that an ingredient in widely used oral decongestants doesn’t work, setting the stage for dozens of products to be removed ...