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.

Acetaminophen is one of the most common painkillers. Many people take it for headaches, fevers, or minor aches, and it’s generally considered safe. Most of the time, it comes in the form of tablets or ...

A pharmacist has shared a simple trick to help you decide whether to take paracetamol or ibuprofen for pain relief. Ash, also known as @ashthepharmacist, on social media, advises: "In an ideal ...

Two types of therapeutic errors could occur: A clinician recommends dosing liquid infant acetaminophen drops based on the 80 mg/0.8 ml while the parent or caregiver uses the "new" 160 mg/5 ml ...

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 ...

Recently paracetamol has been in the headlines again, because a scientific paper in a major journal (the British Medical Journal) reported that it was ineffective for lower back pain, and indeed ...

The High Street pharmacy chain Boots is asking customers to return packs of 500-milligram paracetamol tablets because a labelling error incorrectly states they are a ...