In a long-standing dispute over the pricing control of non-scheduled drugs, the Delhi High Court has granted interim relief ...

Paediatricians have warned parents to stop the routine or preventive use of paracetamol in babies before or immediately after vaccination, stressing that it should only be administered if the child ...

Last year, the NHS prescribed paracetamol over 15 million times and the average person takes 70 a year. But while the ...

Like other EU nations, Belgium has increasingly experienced medicine shortages that vex pharmacists, exasperate patients and ...

Between mysterious abbreviations, chemical names, and hurried handwriting, understanding prescriptions can feel impossible.

Prof Dear emphasised that doctors and patients should "together consider the risks versus the benefits", particularly where ...

Pregnant women are often excluded from clinical trials, leaving an evidence gap and enabling unsubstantiated claims, write Caroline Dale and colleagues On 22 September, US president Donald Trump, ...

The government has issued new guidelines on the use of paracetamol during pregnancy, reassuring the public that the medicine remains safe when taken as directed. In a press statement released on ...

Kenya’s Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) has assured Kenyans that paracetamol use during pregnancy remains safe when taken as recommended. In a statement on Thursday, PPB said paracetamol ...

Doctors and scientists warn that the association of a common painkiller with autism should be taken with a pinch of salt, saying there is no conclusive scientific backing to prove this. Their warning ...

Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, White City Campus, 80 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom ...

Oh no! The crazy guy said crazy stuff again! What should we do? Well, first we should check his assertion about paracetamol/acetaminophen and whether or not it could ...