F.D.A. Panel Urges Ban on Medicine for Child Colds
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A ban could transform the way parents cope with the most common illness in young children, but drug makers said they would fight the recommendations.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban Tuesday on over-the-counter sales of skin-lightening products, saying possible health risks cannot justify their being sold without a prescription.
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A new Food and Drug Administration ethics panel said Friday the advancement of science outweighed the risks of giving a stimulant to healthy children as young as 9.
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The inhalable flu vaccine should be given each year to children as young as 2, an advisory vaccine panel said Wednesday.
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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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Dr. Ian Paul offers advice and analysis about recent FDA warnings that cold medication may not be safe for young children.
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A panel of experts will meet on Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should approve Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine, which could become the first such product cleared for the U.S. market.
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Asychiatrists, pediatricians and family practice doctors said in interviews that they would restrict their use of antidepressants in the wake of a federal advisory committee&#39;s decision that the medicines should contain severe warnings about the risks of
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The medicines long used by parents to treat their children's coughs and colds don't work and shouldn't be used in those younger than 6, federal health advisers recommended Friday.
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Government health officials said Friday they are reviewing whether popular medicines like Tylenol Plus Cold &amp; Cough and Infant Triaminic Thin Strips are safe and effective in treating children's colds and coughs.
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WASHINGTON -- 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. The Food and Drug Administration was issuing that warning Thursday to parents of children...
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Children as young as 2 can be given a nasal spray flu vaccine, a federal advisory panel said Wednesday.
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The American Psychiatric Association commends the Food and Drug Administration, and in particular its Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee and its Pediatric Advisory Committee, for its public hearing on safe antidepressant use in pediatric patients
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Family doctors need to make it clear to patients that antibiotics will not get rid of the common cold, the UK government says.
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Cold and cough medicines given to infants and toddlers work no better than dummy pills and can be dangerous, pediatricians seeking to curb their use told government health advisers Thursday.
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A pair of federal advisory committees recommended Tuesday that drug companies apply stricter warnings to a host of popular antidepressants to alert doctors and patients about the increased risk of suicidal behavior in children and adolescents that take
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - Over-the-counter cold medicines made with phenylephrine appear effective for relieving nasal congestion in adults but the ingredient needs more study, a U.S. advisory panel said on Friday.