Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vick's VapoRub packaging. Many people reach for Vicks VapoRub to find relief from a nasty cough. When the ointment is rubbed on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone who's used Vicks VapoRub is certainly aware of its unique tingling effects. The cough-suppressing analgesic has been around ...

A frugal grandmother has found good company on Twitter, where many users say they feel just as comfortable as she does using a decades-old jar of Vicks VapoRub on their bodies, despite an expiration ...

Vicks VapoRub in its blue jar has been a staple of home medicine chests for more than 100 years. Readers of this column have shared a lot of unique uses for this old-fashioned remedy: nail fungus, ...

Dr. Bruce Rubin, has seen a lot of puzzling cases of respiratory problems. But Rubin says he had never encountered anything quite like the case he saw about three years ago. An emergency room ...

Flu season is in full swing, and one woman has just realized that she has been using Vicks VapoRub wrong for over two decades. A clip by Iveth Resendiz, 25, from San Francisco Bay Area, California, ...

An inventor helped us breathe — and created an annoyance that still lives on. Lunsford Richardson, the creator of Vicks VapoRub, also is credited with sending out the first junk mail. He was born in ...

In 1894, the Greensboro pharmacist Lunsford Richardson II developed a mentholated topical ointment, Vicks Magic Croup Salve, to cure a common infant affliction: congestion and a barking cough. Named ...

In 1988, an infant of unknown nationality died after ingesting 5ml of camphorated oil. What's False We found no recorded deaths in or outside the United States attributed to topical application of ...

Anyone who's used Vicks VapoRub is certainly aware of its unique tingling effects. The cough-suppressing analgesic has been around for over a hundred years, and in that time, people have claimed that ...