Here’s what the science says about what helps with a stuffy nose, what doesn’t and how else to breathe easier.

With cold and flu season in full swing, odds are you'll find yourself reaching for a medicine to relieve a stuffy nose. But what actually works? Last fall, a Food and Drug Administration advisory ...

CVS Health is planning to remove one type of a common decongestant from shelves after an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it was ineffective earlier this year. The ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has sent out a proposal to remove oral phenylephrine which is commonly used in cold and cough syrups. REUTERS The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Changes are coming to the cold and cough aisle of your local pharmacy: U.S. officials are moving to phase out the leading decongestant found in hundreds of over-the-counter medicines ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (The Hill) — The Food and Drug ...

Cato Institute's Dr. Jeffrey Singer, in an opinion piece in USA Today, writes that for years we've been buying and using an ineffective, potentially dangerous decongestant. Why? Just another futile ...

Those over-the-counter decongestants you probably have in your medicine cabinet aren't going to help your cold or allergies, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel ruled Tuesday. The panel ...

It’s easy to understand how a medicine like phenylephrine got onto pharmacy shelves in the first place. The common decongestant, used most often as an ingredient in multidrug cold medications like ...

WASHINGTON — Changes are coming to the cold and cough aisle of your local pharmacy: U.S. officials are moving to phase out the leading decongestant found in hundreds of over-the-counter medicines, ...