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 ...

Acetaminophen (APAP, N-acetyl-para-aminophenol, paracetamol) is available over the counter and used widely to relieve mild-to-moderate pain from head and muscle aches, pain secondary to local ...

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 ...

But what many don’t realise is that too much paracetamol can harm your body, especially your liver. Just because it’s easily available and commonly used doesn’t mean it’s completely harmless.

BMC Clin Pharmacol. 2010;10(10):1-12. Taken together these differing modes of action and related therapeutic effects suggest that ibuprofen and paracetamol may complement each other and improved ...