A cough that outlasts a job, a mortgage or a marriage is not a rare problem, and a Canadian cough clinic has now measured how well the recommended playbook actually works on it. The answer, published August 24 in ERJ Open Research, is sobering: patients coughed measurably less, and most of them still did not feel their cough was under control.
The finding lands about five weeks after the pharmaceutical industry's most advanced candidate for the condition was shelved, leaving clinicians with the same off-label toolkit they have been improvising with for a decade.
