Work carried out on behalf of the Commission for Human Medicine (CHM) found that whilst many cough medicines have over the years been offered in dosages to children based on reduced doses that appear ...
Europe's medicines regulator has already made the same recommendations to recall cough products containing pholcodine. Use honey first for a cough, say guidelines Gambia's cough syrup scandal WHO ...
Cough syrups containing codeine linctus will no longer be sold in chemists in the UK because of concerns people are becoming addicted to the medicine. Several brands will now be reclassified and ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed removing oral phenylephrine, widely used in cold and cough syrups ... of over-the-counter flu and cold medicines, including popular products ...
You just go back to class. Look familiar? DXM or Dextromethorphan is the active ingredient in most cough medicines. One in ten teenagers say they have used DXM to get high, making it more popular ...
Snail slime will soon be administered as a cough syrup as Kenyan scientists race against time to develop the medication. Scientists at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT ...
A few years ago, Drum magazine August edition published a story on former TV anchor Cynthia Nyamai who traced her addiction to the cough medicine, saying the syrup helped her deal with her divorce.
Government data revealed that 384 persons were arrested after 462 samples of medicines were declared ... shall be responsible for the quality. The cough syrups have been linked with the death ...