I am convinced cold medicine has flu and cold virus in it to make you sicker, I stopped using those flu and cold medicines years ago and very rarely am I ever sick. Yeah there are very few drugs that actually cure disease besides anti-biotic's most do just treat symptoms, the drug companies have no interest in curing the disease thats why its foolish to give your money away to ""telethon's" seeking a cure for major disease, it goes against the major drug companies bottom line, it'll never happen.