{"id":1824,"date":"2024-11-08T18:38:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T18:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2024-11-08T18:38:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T18:38:33","slug":"fda-takes-step-toward-removal-of-ineffective-decongestants-from-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"FDA Takes Step Toward Removal of Ineffective Decongestants From the Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2024\/11\/fda-otc-decongestant-oral-phenylephrine-cold-allergy-drug\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FDA has proposed removing oral phenylephrine from its guidelines for over-the-counter drugs due to inefficacy as a decongestant. Use of this ingredient in cold and allergy medicines grew after a federal law required that pseudoephedrine-containing products be kept behind pharmacy counters. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2024\/11\/fda-otc-decongestant-oral-phenylephrine-cold-allergy-drug\/\">FDA Takes Step Toward Removal of Ineffective Decongestants From the Market<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA has proposed removing oral phenylephrine from its guidelines for over-the-counter drugs due to inefficacy as a decongestant. Use of this ingredient in cold and allergy medicines grew after a federal law required that pseudoephedrine-containing products be kept behind pharmacy counters. The post FDA Takes Step Toward Removal of Ineffective Decongestants From the Market&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}