In most cases, pain and fever relief is as simple as a trip to your local supermarket for some paracetamol or ibuprofen. While both are effective at reducing pain, they work in different ways. So ...

A new study from Hebrew University reveals that paracetamol doesn’t just work in the brain—it also blocks pain at its source by acting on nerve endings in the body. The researchers found that its ...

An estimated 200 million packets are sold over the counter each year. Cheap, widely available and generally safe when used correctly, it is a medicine cabinet essential for millions of Britons. But ...

Together, they uncovered a surprising new way that paracetamol—one of the world's most common painkillers—actually works. For decades, scientists believed that paracetamol relieved pain by working ...