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FDA to pull common but ineffective cold medicine from market

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-cold-medicine-phenylephrine-ineffective/

#fda #cold #medicine #pharmacy #flu #decongestant #phenylephrine #otc #otcdrugs #otcmedicine #coldandflu #science

It took five decades from the 1970s for the FDA to finally admit last year that oral phenylephrine, used as a decongestant in Sudafed and Lemsip, doesn't actually do anything.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-two-pharmacists-figured-out-that-decongestants-dont-work/

#ColdAndFlu #Phenylephrine #FDA #Decongestants #Lemsip #Sudafed #ClinicalPharmacology

ok, like half of the useful non-antibiotic #ICU #drugs are apparently #UnapprovedByFDA

Source: #RaviGupta #JoeRoss in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28944731/

#WTF
#atropine #epinephrine #hydrocodone #levothyroxine #morphine #nitroglycerine #oxycodone #pancrelipase #phenylephrine #vasopressin

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