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A glass of water will do as much to relieve a child's cough as an expensive, over-the-counter cough syrup, a new study suggests. The research, published in the medical journal Pediatrics, concludes that parents who treat a child's nighttime cough with the widely available medications are wasting their money.

"Consumers spend billions of dollars each year on over-the-counter medications for cough," said Ian Paul, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Penn State Children's Hospital in Hershey, Pa... [read more at seattlepi.com]