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| | Cough Medicines a Bust? |
 | | The updated cough treatment guidelines were issued by the American College of Chest Physicians and are published in the January issue of its journal Chest. |
 | | "Cough and cold medicines are not useful in children and can actually be harmful," says Irwin, who is chief of the division of pulmonary, allergy, and critical care medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. |
 | | The problem, he says, is that there have been very few studies done on over-the-counter cough medicines, and most were conducted decades ago. |
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