http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A Nigerian court on Friday sentenced two officials from a pharmaceutical company to seven years in prison over the sale of an adulterated teething drug which killed 84 babies in 2008. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-nigerian-court-killer-teething-drug.html Other Fri, 17 May 2013 14:31:29 EST news288016302 The number of deaths and liver transplants due to paracetamol overdoses has significantly reduced thanks to UK legislation to make pack sizes smaller, a paper published today in BMJ suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-percent-reduction-deaths-paracetamol-due.html Medications Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:30:02 EST news279472443 (Medical Xpress)—People who regularly take medicines, such as aspirin, paracetamol and triptans could be causing themselves more pain than relief. New guidance out today (Wednesday 19 September) from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) advises GPs and other healthcare professionals to consider the possibility of "medication overuse" in their patients who have been taking medicines for up to half of the days in a month, over three months. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-painkillers-headaches.html Medications Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:00:01 EST news267263194 The correct therapeutic dose is important for this commonly used painkiller, say the authors, because it is potentially fatal to give too high a dose; and too low a dose may result in more serious illness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-carers-pharmacists-paracetamol-doses-overweight.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:30:04 EST news264693951 During the six years following the withdrawal of the analgesic co-proxamol in the UK in 2005, there was a major reduction in poisoning deaths involving this drug, without apparent significant increase in deaths involving other analgesics. These are the findings of a study by Keith Hawton of the University of Oxford, UK and colleagues and published in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fall-deaths-involving-painkiller-co-proxamol.html Medications Tue, 08 May 2012 17:00:04 EST news255711866 Repeatedly taking slightly too much paracetamol over time can cause a dangerous overdose that is difficult to spot, but puts the person at danger of dying. Patients may not come to hospital reporting the overdose, but because they feel unwell. This clinical situation needs to be recognized and treated rapidly because these patients are at even greater danger than people who take single overdoses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-paracetamol-ingestion-slightly-fatal-.html Medications Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:02:47 EST news241243137 Researchers at King's College London have discovered how one of the most common household painkillers works, which could pave the way for less harmful pain relief medications to be developed in the future. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-reveal-paracetamol-pain-relief-medicines.html Medical research Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:20:56 EST news241183249 A Cochrane Review of data relating to about 45,000 patients involved in approximately 350 individual studies has provided an evaluation of the effect you can expect to get if you take commonly used painkillers at specific doses. The review also identifies pain killers for which there is only poor or no reliable evidence. This review will help doctors and patients to make evidence informed decisions of which pain killers to use, and is published in the latest edition of The Cochrane Library. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-pain-relief-based-solid-evidence.html Medications Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:16:38 EST news234587774 Many of the prescriptions issued by GPs for paracetamol either give less than recommended doses to older children or exceed recommended doses in young children. Under-dosing may result in insufficient pain relief and over-dosing can damage a person's liver. "Getting the dose right can become even more complicated when parents also give their children additional paracetamol that they have bought over the counter," says James McLay, a senior member of the research team who studied this issue. The findings are published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-scottish-highlight-dangerous-pediatric-paracetamol.html Medications Thu, 19 May 2011 03:38:22 EST news224995078