Drug companies: Children under 4 shouldn't take over the counter cold meds

12:08 PM CDT on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Children under 4 should not be given over-the-counter cough and cold remedies, drug companies said Tuesday in a concession to pediatricians who doubt the drugs do much good and worry about risks. AP Photo / Paul Sakuma PediaCare Infant Dropper Long-Acting Cough, second from right, and PediaCare Infant Dropper Decongestant & Cough, second from left, are displayed at a drug store in Palo Alto, Calif., in this file photo from Oct. 11, 2007. The voluntary change in advice to parents comes less than a week after federal health officials said they also saw little evidence that the drugs work. But government officials were afraid that taking the medicines off store shelves might prompt parents to give their children adult medicines. The... [read full story]