Posted by: admin on: February 17, 2012
Easy availability, and its relative safety compared to other painkillers has made paracetamol abuse a frequent occurrence. Repeated doses of slightly too much acetaminophen (known as paracetamol) can be fatal, according to the results of a large, single-center cohort study published online November 22 in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. Team@CMHF
Posted by: admin on: January 3, 2012
The UK’s drug regulator has issued new dosage guidelines for children’s liquid medicines such as Calpol and Disprol. The new, age-specific guidance stipulates exact doses of liquid paracetamol medicines that should be given to children, doing away with the ranged doses currently in use. The guidelines also introduce seven narrower age bands covering children from […]