In the summer of 2006, I learned that several toddlers in Baltimore had died from the toxic effects of over-the-counter cough and cold medications. As the city’s health commissioner, I convened a group of leading pediatricians from area hospitals, who informed me that these medications had never been proven effective in young children and, in fact, had been associated with dozens of deaths and thousands of injuries across the country.
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