Ars TechnicaThe spectacular downfall of a common, useless cold medicine
This week's unanimous vote on phenylephrine's ineffectiveness was decades in the making.
knit.sew.sing@arstechnica I used to work for a company that made generic versions of OTC drugs and I always badmouthed the phenylephrine because it did NOTHING for my sinus pain. Gimme that good old Sudafed every time. (We used to have a cabinet with free samples for employees of all the products we made, but the FDA made us stop putting the pseudo out there. Had to find a contact in the back that would get it for me.)