The "best" cough medicine is ultimately based on the type of cough you have, as well as evaluation of possible side effects. The three main types of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines adults can use to ...

If you’ve walked into any pharmacy, you’ve been greeted by an insane choice of combination cold remedies. With a variety of labels like cold and flu, night-time, cough and sinus, extra strength, and ...

When you get stuffy and come down with a nasty cough, you might assume the culprit is the common cold. Feeling seriously unwell could point you in the direction of the flu, COVID-19, or RSV ...

If you’ve walked into any pharmacy, you’ve been greeted by an insane choice of combination cold remedies. With a variety of labels like cold and flu, night-time, cough and sinus, extra strength, and ...

An FDA advisory committee has voted against approving Merck & Co.’s gefapixant, a P2X3 receptor antagonist medicine designed to treat adults with chronic cough—a decision the Big Pharma disagrees with ...

Kate and Greg Moor weren’t thinking “whooping cough” when their son, 13-year-old Joe, started having coughing fits in early March. Joe probably just had a late winter virus, the Bloomfield Hills, ...

Dear Doctors: I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories about whooping cough. Is there really another illness that we need worry about? What is whooping cough, and how do you get it? What is the ...