CHOOSING THE BEST COLD MEDICINE can be overwhelming. Drugstores are stocked with shelves and shelves full of options—including pills, liquids, and nasal sprays—that claim to treat different symptoms ...

The cold and flu meds in your medicine cabinet may not be effective at clearing congestion. Decongestants are a part of ...

Zinc products promising cold relief have been on the market for decades. A new analysis finds research on their efficacy to ...

For those who pop lozenges or inhale nasal sprays once a cold has come on, the available research together indicates that the ...

Zinc is an essential mineral that helps support different functions in the body but does it also help treat or shorten cold ...

This would suggest that the cold and cough medicine may have been contaminated with some kind of fungus, which in general isn’t a fun thing to have in your body. Now, a strong immune system ...

May 21, 2024 — Currently available flu medications only target the virus after it has already established an infection, but what if a drug could prevent infection in the first place? Now ...

For example, codeine, the active ingredient in cough medicine, has a chemical structure ... had abused over-the-counter cough and cold medicines in the past year “to get high or alter their ...

The art of cold plunging seemed downright painful to me. But according to Dr. Laura Purdy, a family medicine physician, ...

“Love Is Blind” star Alexa Lemieux also recently said she got pregnant while taking the medicine after struggling ... in addition to affecting the mucus from a cold, is thought to also affect ...

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"Assuming that everybody responds the same way to cold is extremely dangerous," said François Haman, a health science ...