Federal health officials are warning parents and doctors not to give a certain antihistamine drug to children younger than two years old.

The agency cites seven fatal cases linked to promethazine hydrochloride, sold by Wyeth under the brand name Phenergan as well as in various generic versions

Houston is known as the "City of Syrup" because the abuse of codeine-fortified cough syrup among the city's youth is so widespread, a local researcher says to The Associated Press.

The reputation is reflected in a trial that begins Tuesday of six pharmacists charged with illegally dispensing the highly addictive prescription cough syrup codeine with promethazine