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FDA Rejects Ban On Cough & Cold Medicines for Kids

Posted on October 03, 2008

Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines shouldn t be given to children under 6, a panel of FDA advisers said a year ago. But at a public hearing yesterday, the agency stopped short of banning the use of those medicines in young kids.The agency is re-writing the decades-old rules that grandfathered in the medicines in the 1960s but that s likely to take years, the WSJ reports. In many cases, the active ingredients in children s cold medicines have never been studied in children. The American Academy of Pediatrics says that several studies show that cold and cough products don t...

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