No medicine cabinet is fully stocked without some good old cherry-flavored cough syrup—or at least that’s how it feels during cold and flu season. But does that stuff even work?

Jack Daniel's has released a new canned cocktail for its Ready To Drink line: Jack & Coca-Cola Cherry. We tried a few cans, and here's what we think.

The drug is Ambroxol. It’s been used for decades to treat respiratory ailments by thinning mucus and easing coughs. But now, ...

To the San Bernardino (Calif.) County Hospital early this year came a 14-year-old girl with a deep, body-shaking cough that had lasted continuously for 72 hours. The diagnosis: cough due to ...

Parents, guardians and all who care for kids should check their medicine cabinets after a children’s cough syrup was recalled for a foodborne bacteria that can cause myriad problems. And, in extreme ...

Though quite some time has passed since those old-timey herbal products were on the market, the practice of using cherry to flavor medicine has remained.

Two-thirds of all U.S. deaths from whooping cough in 1938-40 were of babies less than one year old; nearly half of these died before the age of seven months. Yet the medical profession, which is ...

A hundred years ago, cough syrups weren't regulated, which meant manufacturers could add anything to them. Learn what ingredients were used in these old-time cough remedies and why they’re no ...

Indian parents whose children died after taking toxic syrups want justice. Some of the drugmakers haven’t shown they even tested their products.

‘Mine tasted like cough syrup’: Chick-fil-A worker reveals which new Cherry Berry drinks you don’t want to try ‘First reaction: It’s yummy. Tart on the end, though.’ ...