"Child Cold Med Safety Improved"

Cold and cough medicine label changes for children reduced adverse events

(dailyRx News) Medicine is meant to heal, but sometimes even over-the-counter products can have unintended effects. A new study focused on such a situation involving young children and cold medicine.

This study explored emergency visits for certain cough and cold medications after label changes to these products were made several years ago.

The researchers found that the label changes seemed to have reduced the number of emergency room visits for young children related to the medications.

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