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  • FDA to pull common but ineffective cold medicine from market

    FDA to pull common but ineffective cold medicine from market

    The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to pull a widely used ingredient in cough and cold medicines from the market, after the agency’s scientists concluded that the oral version of the drug is ineffective as a nasal decongestant. The FDA’s proposal comes more than a year after the agency’s outside…