Common decongestants may soon be pulled from shelves. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Wednesday its proposal ...

The FDA has proposed ending the use of a common ingredient found in many cold and allergy medicines — and some pharmacies ...

The FDA had proposed removing phenylephrine, a widely used ingredient to treat nasal congestion, from over-the-counter cold ...

Phenylephrine is a medication that’s been used to relieve nasal congestion caused by colds, allergies, and hay fever, per the ...

Phenylephrine is included in many cold and flu products, but a scientific panel last year found that it doesn't really do its ...

However, the FDA's action is only related to orally administered phenylephrine and not the nasal spray form. Last year, an ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed to remove oral phenylephrine, widely used in cold and cough syrups.

On Thursday, the FDA proposed removing oral phenylephrine from the list of approved active ingredients for over-the-counter ...

More than a year after its advisory panel unanimously declared the drug phenylephrine to be useless against nasal congestion, ...

An extensive review determined that the ingredient, oral phenylephrine, doesn’t actually relieve nasal congestion.

The FDA says oral phenylephrine, used in many over-the-counter cough and cold medicines, "is not effective as a nasal ...