cold-medicine

Grandmother Arrested For Buying Cold Medicine Twice In One Week

—>Last March, Sally Harpold bought a box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband, then a few days later bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her grown daughter. That put her over the limit for how much pseudoephedrine-laced cold meds you can buy in a week in her small Indiana town, so she was arrested along with 16 other potential meth makers earlier this month.  More »

FDA to Review Children's Cold Remedies

The agency has for decades promised to review systematically the safety of all old drugs, but for a variety of reasons like budgetary constraints, time and popularity of a particular drug has not done so.

We, like the reader who sent this story in, find it troubling that "popularity" is a factor in deciding whether or not to review the safety of a drug. The New York Times doesn't explain in detail what is meant by this quote, but we're hard pressed to think of any explanations that would make us say, "Wow, that's really awesome."   More »