CINCINNATI — Soon in Kentucky, you might need to show an ID to buy cough syrup. A bill filed for the next session that begins in January would make it illegal to sell one of the most common ...

If you recently purchased cough syrup, check your medicine cabinet. Several lots of cough syrup made by the popular brand Robitussin have been recalled because of microbial contamination.

A series of exposes in the early 1900s and the passage of new laws led to increased scrutiny of the patent medicine market. In 1910, Kohler's One Night Cough Syrup was specifically referenced on ...

This type of medication isn’t used to treat a cough with mucus. And it can’t relieve pain like the medicine codeine -- you'll need a doctor’s prescription for cough meds with that in it.

Tainted syrup from India may be connected ... But so far, there is no proof of a connection to tainted medicine there, though contaminated cough syrups have been found in some of the children ...

Din left their single-room home in the Himalayan mountains and traveled 10 km (6 miles) to the nearest pharmacy, where he bought a bottle of medicine ... of law for the cough syrup deaths.