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FfaerieOxide, in A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says. The panel’s vote tees up a likely decision by the agency on whether to essentially ban the ingredient, phenylephrine.
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Just put pseudoephedrine back over the counter again. Christ.

bloopernova,
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But someone might make a tiny amount of meth. Therefore everyone must suffer.

Itty53,
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therefore everyone must suffer

You do realize you can walk right up to that counter, point to the good stuff, and they'll just give it to you right?

They didn't just put it behind the counter to be pretty back there.

FfaerieOxide,
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You do realize you can walk right up to that counter, point to the good stuff, and they'll just give it to you right?

Not after 9.

btaf45,

Just put pseudoephedrine back over the counter again. Christ.

Absolutely. Pseudoephedrine is the real cold medicine. People were saying from the start that phenylephrine didn't work. I almost never used it.

btaf45, in US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins

It is pretty easy to change your default web browser, compared to changing your operating system [Microsoft], your social network of friends [Facebook], or your auction site [Ebay]. Microsoft, Facebook, Ebay, etc all have a far greater lock on their markets because a single person cannot make a switch without degrading their experience.

LinkOpensChest_wav, in A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says. The panel’s vote tees up a likely decision by the agency on whether to essentially ban the ingredient, phenylephrine.
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I feel validated. My doctor recommended taking it when I was congested, and I insisted that it never worked for me.

Anticorp, in A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says. The panel’s vote tees up a likely decision by the agency on whether to essentially ban the ingredient, phenylephrine.

Sudaphedrine definitely works, although it’s the only thing that has worked for me, and it’s under lock and key behind the pharmacy. I’ve never had results from OTC medicine like this, so I’m not surprised to hear it doesn’t work at all.

athos77, in A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says. The panel’s vote tees up a likely decision by the agency on whether to essentially ban the ingredient, phenylephrine.

Does anyone know if phenylephrine is otherwise harmless? If it's essentially harmless, and assuming all these various products have other ingredients that remain effective, then it seems to me that the easiest thing for the companies to do is to move phenylephrine from the "active ingredients" section to the "inactive ingredients" section.

girl,

It is harmless. But moving it to the inactive ingredients will still leave many of them without a decongestant and they’ll have to change all of their packaging/marketing. The other ingredients are usually for fever reduction or cough suppression. It would be a waste of their money to keep a useless ingredient.

Chetzemoka,

Oh no, phenylephrine definitely has effects. It's just that decongestion isn't one of them. Intravenous phenylephrine is sometimes used in critical care hospital settings to deliberately raise a person's blood pressure:

https://www.lhsc.on.ca/critical-care-trauma-centre/phenylephrine-neosynephrine

girl, in A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says. The panel’s vote tees up a likely decision by the agency on whether to essentially ban the ingredient, phenylephrine.

I must be a placebo effect case lol. I use phenylephrine HCl and it seems to keep me clear usually. If I forget it I spend the entire day sniffling or completely clogged. Though it only works if I’m well hydrated, it will actually make it worse if not.

rafoix, in Putin on Trump: Criminal charges are politically motivated

Political crimes tend to be politically motivated.

exscape, in Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX After Ukraine Revelations
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But Putin said he's an outstanding person!

wagesj45, in Child poverty in the US jumped and income declined in 2022 as pandemic benefits ended
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We're a cruel country that actively chooses to hurt people. I hate it.

Treczoks, in Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX After Ukraine Revelations

Traitor? Agent of a foreign power? Whatever it is, cutting him down a notch will be good for humanity.

Boddhisatva, in Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX After Ukraine Revelations

So how did this go down anyway? First, I heard that Musk deactivated his already active satellites in the region and thus disrupted the attack. This article suggests that the satellites were not active in the region and Musk simply refused to activate them.

Which is true because those are very different scenarios. In one, he used his authority to disrupt one government's actions against another, thereby taking sides in the conflict. In the other, he refused to take an action that would help one side against the other, thereby refusing to take sides.

Knowing what I know of Musk, I'm currently assuming he is a Russian asset and helped them, but I'd like to know for sure.

ono, in What to Know About the New COVID-19 Vaccine

The updated vaccine will be the first COVID-19 shot to be distributed in the way most vaccines have in the past, prior to the pandemic, on the commercial market for around $120-$130 per dose, rather than purchased and provided for by the government. That means that pharmacies and doctors’ offices will purchase the vaccines at their own cost and get reimbursed for the shots. Most insurers, including Medicare and private companies, will continue to cover the vaccine, without co-pays, since it is recommended by the CDC.

UnhappyCamper,
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I wonder if it's the same deal for Canada

TopShelfVanilla, in "It serves no purpose, it is unjust:" 63 Australian politicians urge US to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walk free

He embarrassed them. It will never happen.

kirklennon, in "It serves no purpose, it is unjust:" 63 Australian politicians urge US to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walk free

Julian Assange, in addition to being a rapist, is objectively pro-Putin and pro-authoritarian. To be pro-Putin is also to be very anti–free press. He’s absolute garbage and these people are begging for his freedom? I’m so very glad nobody of consequence in the US government has any sympathy for this guy. If he hadn’t spent nearly a decade on the lam, he might already be finished with his US prison sentence, assuming he was convicted. Of course if he hadn’t waited out the statute of limitations, he’d also have to serve his Swedish rape prison sentence. At any rate, nobody should advocate for him except his own lawyers. These Australian politicians are throwing away their own dignity to appeal to the laziest, most insufferably ignorant of their constituents.

xc2215x, in Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of 'Beetlejuice' over reports of rude behavior

So embarrassing.

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