Paracetamol can be good for combatting flu and some aches and pains. Due to side effects, some more 'powerful' drugs are not advised during pregnancy. For example, pain killers like Ibruprofen and ...

But the next time you reach for a particular product, be extra careful: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now warning that one pain reliever spray is being recalled over a cancer ...

Pain killers offer relief from aches and pains, but indiscriminate use can have a serious effect on your health. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. Now a new study ...

What at first appeared to be a miracle to control pain for suffering patients, has become a death knell for millions of ...

HEALTH bosses have issued an urgent warning to the “missing million” at risk hospitalisation and death as three dangerous ...

Paul Earley, MD The opioid drugs, the pain killer drugs, produce a very strong physiological dependence that is only under rare circumstances is life-threatening, but is extremely painful.

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Prostaglandins are powerful signaling agents in the human body. The two-dozen or so members of this family of small lipid messengers underpin many profound physiological events — including ...

IT’S that time of year again when everyone appears to be sick. From constant sneezing and a runny nose to a hacking cough and ...

A backpacker says she felt like she was ‘about to die’ after catching dengue fever in Thailand. Paisley Peach, 32, was ...