Just before cold and flu season is set to kick off, the Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel last month reported that an oral decongestant Americans have relied on for nearly 20 years is no ...

The agency now must decide whether products containing the ingredient, like some Sudafed and NyQuil products, should no longer be sold or perhaps give companies lead time to substitute other ...

Cold and flu medicine sits on a store shelf Tuesday in Florida. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel announced an ingredient in many over-the-counter cold and allergy medications called ...

Two decades ago, it became clear that Congress was intent on trying to curtail illicit methamphetamine production by restricting access to pseudoephedrine, a meth precursor that was also widely used ...

It’s winter and many people are contending with the sniffles and coughs. For some, that means heading to the pharmacy to resupply on cold medications. But this year, some have gone missing from ...

Oral decongestants like Sudafed PE and Dayquil are under scrutiny—and soon there might only be one such drug left available to consumers: pseudoephedrine. On September 12, a group of U.S. Food and ...

When you have nasal congestion, you may consider using products containing either phenylephrine or pseudoephedrine. These are two common ingredients in nonprescription cold and allergy medicines, such ...

In the wake of the hideous massacre in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, “Sudafed” began trending on Twitter. Not because it’s allergy season, but because in many parts of the U.S., it’s easier to buy multiple ...