How many drugs treat sore throat?

Drug Landscape tracks 2 marketed treatments for sore throat (deduplicated by molecule). 0 Phase 3 candidates and 0 Phase 2 candidates are in the pipeline.

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Last reviewed 2026-06-10 · How we verify

sore throat — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence

Name: Drug Landscape Pharmaceutical Database
Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

sore throat (disease) competitive landscape: 2 marketed treatments tracked, 0 Phase 3 candidates, 0 Phase 2 candidates. Recent regulatory actions and upcoming PDUFA dates across the entire treatment set.

2 marketed 0 Phase 3 0 Phase 2 Live · 30-min refresh

Marketed treatment landscape

Approved drugs treating sore throat, deduplicated by molecule. See the full disease page for line-of-therapy detail.

Drug	Generic	Sponsor	Class	Target	Line of therapy	First approval
Immune Support	CORTISONE	Merck	Non-Standardized Plant Allergenic Extract [EPC]			1974-01-01
QUALITY CHOICE Cough Drops Creamy Strawberry	PECTIN	Chain Drug Marketing Association, Inc.

Phase 3 pipeline

No Phase 3 pipeline candidates tracked.

Phase 2 pipeline

No Phase 2 pipeline candidates tracked.

Recent regulatory actions (last 90 days)

No regulatory actions in the last 90 days for this treatment set.

Upcoming PDUFA dates (next 180 days)

No PDUFA dates in the next 180 days for this treatment set.

Sponsor landscape

Chain Drug Marketing Association, Inc. · 1 drug in sore throat
Merck · 1 drug in sore throat

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Drug Landscape (2026). sore throat — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/disease/sore-throat. Accessed 2026-06-10.

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