The FDA has issued a warning that tablets, pills, and caplets of Percocet and eight other opioid products may have been mixed up and wrongly packaged as another. Read Summary >
A review of previous studies has found that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such dicolfenac, ibuprofen, and naproxyn can increase users' risk for heart attack or stroke by a third, depending on the drug taken and the size of the dose. Read Summary >
According to a new study in the medical journal Pain, people are more likely to underestimate a person's pain intensity and to be slightly less sympathetic to that person's pain if he or she is not considered "likeable." Read Summary >
According to a new study, women who take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin or ibuprofen during the first few months of their pregnancy may have a higher risk of suffering a miscarriage. Read Summary >
Researchers at the University of Kentucky have found that women who smoke are more likely to experience chronic pain than those who don't smoke. Read Summary >
Scientists have found that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and aspirin may increase users' risk of atrial fibrillation, a type of heart flutter associated with heart failure and strokes. Read Summary >
A subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson is voluntarily recalling 60,912 bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol caplets after detecting and receiving customer complaints of a musty, moldy odor in the pills. Read Summary >
