Health Check: do cough medicines work?
- Written by Janet Sluggett, Research Fellow: Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University

Having a cough can be distressing. It can disrupt sleep or even worsen urinary incontinence. So it’s not surprising 7% of Australians have reached for a cough or cold medicine in the last two weeks.
But with so many cough mixtures on the pharmacy shelves, it...