FDA: Cold medicines too risky for tots
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Parents may be left with only love and lots of liquid to give their sniffling babies and toddlers now that the government is declaring over-the-counter cough and cold medicines too risky for tots.
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Popular pediatric over-the-counter cough and cold medicines work no better than placebos, an F.D.A. panel said.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning about the generic drug naproxen, after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) halted a clinical trial involving patients at risk of developing Alzheimers.
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Sales of over-the-counter cold remedies for children have fallen sharply since a federal panel concluded they should not be used for children younger than 6 because of a dearth of evidence that they work and concerns they can be dangerous.
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Over-the-counter cold and cough medicines don't work for children under age 6 and giving the common medicine to young children cannot be recommended, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee said Friday.
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For parents worried about how to treat children's colds now that some medicines have been called into question, the answer may be a dose of salt water.
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Common children's cold and cough medicines are coming under scrutiny from federal drug regulators, who say the remedies and their recommended doses have not been studied enough in children
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Finding out how prescription drugs affect children isn't easy, even for pediatricians, a new study says.
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Common children's cold and cough medicines are coming under scrutiny from federal drug regulators, who say the remedies and their recommended doses have not been studied enough in children, a newspaper reported.
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More than 7,000 children get rushed to emergency rooms each year after suffering adverse reactions to cough and cold medicines, according to the first national estimate of the risks posed by the widely used remedies.
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Medicines for young children often contain additives banned from food for under-threes, research shows.
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WASHINGTON -- Cold and cough medicines recently pulled from sale for infants and toddlers shouldn't be given to children as old as 5, either, pediatricians told government health advisers Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - A new Food and Drug Administration analysis backs earlier suggestions of a link between at least some antidepressants used by children and suicidal tendencies, prompting the agency to prepare new warnings.    Exactly what those warnings will say, and which drugs will be affected, hasn't been settled, according to FDA documents released Friday...
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MONDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDayNews) -- While U.S. health officials consider imposing more warning labels on antidepressants used by children, experts recommend that parents make no treatment changes without consulting their child's doctor first.
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Drug safety measures pending in the House of Representatives may burden regulators without protecting patients from dangerous medicines, a senior Food and Drug Administration official told lawmakers on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Tea made from Chinese star  anise -- a traditional treatment for colic -- should not be  given to infants, because contaminants may have toxic  neurologic effects, physicians report in the journal  Pediatrics.
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For parents worried about how to treat  children's colds now that some medicines have been called into  question, the answer may be a dose of salt water.