Prestige Brands on Monday announced the home stretch for its consumer-created jingle-development contest for its Luden's cough drop brand.

Americans won’t take off work for something as innocuous as a cold, a new survey released Wednesday found, a fact that underscores the need for ready access to over-the-counter cough-cold medicines and better hand-washing/sanitizing practices in the workplace.

Despite the fact that H1N1 spiked awareness levels around cold and flu, overall illness rates...