Obstetrics & gynaecology
For baby's sake, moms-to-be need the whooping cough vaccine: CDC
Pregnant women can help protect their newborns from whooping cough by getting a Tdap vaccine during the third trimester of pregnancy.
Feb 8, 2023
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News tagged with cough
Medications
WHO urges action on contaminated meds after child deaths
Following the deaths of more than 300 children from contaminated cough syrup, the WHO appealed Monday for "immediate and coordinated action" to root out substandard and falsified medicines around the world.
Jan 24, 2023
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Medications
Germany to pay more for children's meds as shortages spike
Germany will pay up to 50 percent more for common children's medication such as cough syrup and fever drugs to combat a severe shortage this winter, the health minister said Tuesday.
Dec 20, 2022
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Health informatics
Machine learning diagnoses pneumonia by listening to coughs
Pneumonia is one of the world's leading causes of death and affects over a million people a year in the United States. The disease disproportionately impacts children, older adults, and hospitalized patients. To give them ...
Dec 5, 2022
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Medications
EU bans cough syrup chemical over severe allergies
Cough medicines containing the chemical pholcodine should be banned due to the risk of potentially deadly allergic reactions in people under general anaesthetic, the European Union's drug regulator said Friday.
Dec 2, 2022
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Pediatrics
Your child is sick. Do you call your doctor or head to the ER?
It's a common dilemma when your child seems sick: Do you call the doctor, make a trip to urgent care or head straight to the emergency room?
Nov 23, 2022
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Medications
Unregulated 'innovation': India's medicine problem
If India is the pharmacy of the world, it's not doing a good job of providing safe products. A large number of children in the Gambia have recently died after ingesting cough syrup made in India. And in 2019, 11 children ...
Nov 15, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Exploring available treatment for pneumonia
Pneumonia causes more than a million hospitalizations and 50,000 deaths per year in the U.S., according to the American Lung Association.
Nov 14, 2022
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Health
WHO probing Indian cough syrup after 66 children die in The Gambia
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued an alert Wednesday over four cough and cold syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals in India, warning they could be linked to the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia.
Oct 5, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Why has my cold dragged on so long? And how do I know when it's morphed into something more serious?
Common colds are caused by viruses. There are no effective cures, and antibiotics do not work on viruses, so treatment is targeted at managing the symptoms until your immune system has cleared the cold.
Sep 30, 2022
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