Over the counter but no longer under the radar - Pediatric cough and cold medications

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2321-2324

  Sharfstein, Joshua M ^a   North, Marisa ^b   Serwint, Janet R ^b  

^a Health for Baltimore   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DIMETAPP; EXPECTORANT AGENT; GUAIFENESIN; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PARACETAMOL; PEDIACRE; PLACEBO; TRIAMINIC; TYLENOL PLUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGY; COMMON COLD; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONSUMER; COUGHING; DECISION TREE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG LABELING; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY WARD; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH EDUCATION; PEDIATRICS; POISON CENTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURCHASING; REVIEW; RHINORRHEA;

EID: 36849061688     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0707400     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Consumer Healthcare Products Association. Briefing information for the Food and Drug Administration joint meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee & the Pediatric Advisory Committee. (Accessed November 14, 2007, at http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/07/briefing/2007-4323b1-01-CHPA.pdf.)
2. Consumer Healthcare Products Association testimony before the Food and Drug Administration (October 18, 2007). Washington, DC: American Association of Poison Control Centers, 2007.
3. Infant deaths associated with cough and cold medications - two states, 2005. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2007;56:1-4.
4. Food and Drug Administration, Division of Drug Risk Evaluation. Nonprescription Drug Advisory Committee meeting: cold, cough, allergy, bronchodilator, antiasthmatic drug products for over-the-counter human use. 2007:29. memorandum. (Accessed November 14, 2007, at http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/ dockets/ac/07/briefing/2007-4323b1-02-FDA.pdf.)