Increasing numbers of young children are showing up in emergency rooms after accidentally ingesting the cough suppressant benzonatate, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday. Benzonatate is a ...

A recently published report describes the case of a 37-year-old female patient who experienced seizures and cardiac arrest following toxic ingestion of benzonatate. A recently published report ...

The number child poisoning cases caused each year by benzonatate, a prescription cough medication, has risen significantly since 2010, according to an analysis by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

The number of kids unintentionally ingesting a cough medicine has risen in recent years, a study suggests. Most of the cases of unintentional overdose involved kids younger than 5 years of age, the ...

More children are overdosing on the cough suppressant benzonatate as prescriptions for the drug — sold under the brand name Tessalon — have increased, a study released Tuesday found. Researchers at ...

Poison control centers across the U.S. have seen a jump in reports of children ingesting a type of prescription cough medicine, according to a study published Tuesday by the Food and Drug ...

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Last month I posted about benzonatate, a cough suppressant also marketed under the brand Tessalon. (See the link below for the original post.) In that post I detailed an FDA warning about the serious ...