BOOTS have urgently recalled paracetamol tablets from shelves and warned shoppers to avoid taking them. The high street pharmacy stuck a "do not take" alert on a batch of its 500mg tablets.

Paracetamol is the world’s most popular painkiller and is used in a whole range of over-the-counter preparations and also on prescription. One of the advantages of paracetamol is that it isn’t ...

The French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products has alerted healthcare professionals and parents about a concerning trend known as the “Paracetamol Challenge” that ...