Pain

MHRA issues advice on Zentiva soluble and effervescent paracetamol

3rd June 2025

Poor co-ordination across NHS for long-term conditions ‘harming patients’

16th April 2025

People with long-term conditions should have BMI check every year, says NICE

24th March 2025

Boots Paracetamol batch recalled after being wrongly labelled as Aspirin

4th March 2025

Asda pharmacies launch earache service for adults

4th March 2025

More meds could be sold in pharmacies as POM to P switches 'encouraged'

10th February 2025

RPS suggests 'opt-in' process for pharmacists participating in assisted dying

29th January 2025

UK researchers uncover ethnic differences in inflammatory bowel disease

28th January 2025

Repeated paracetamol use linked with severe complications in over-65s

By Emma Wilkinson

Orpington PCN pharmacists named Pharmacy Team of the Year at GP Awards

By Madeleine Anderson, Joanna Robertson

Nearly twice as many patients in deprived areas prescribed dependency-forming meds 

NICE recommends first oral treatment for migraine prevention

By Helen Quinn

Pharmacists need endometriosis education amid slow diagnoses, charity suggests

Ban multi-buy deals on pain relief medicine, government urged

By Jerome Smail

Painkiller use in inflammatory arthritis is ‘widespread’ despite no benefit

By Emma Wilkinson

Social impact of pain up a quarter in a decade

NICE to recommend rimegepant as first acute migraine treatment

By Emma Wilkinson

Number of potentially addictive drugs prescribed nearly unchanged in seven years

Overdose risk higher when opioid agonists prescribed with other medicines

By Helen Quinn

New approval process has sped up medicines access, claims NICE

By Emma Wilkinson

Novel oral drug for migraine prevention approved by NICE

By Sofia Lind

Medicinal cannabis could reduce polypharmacy and opioid use, study suggests

By Emma Wilkinson

Lack of reliable evidence on most antidepressants prescribed for chronic pain

By Emma Wilkinson

Little evidence for analgesics for lower back pain

By Emma Wilkinson

Reluctance to prescribe medication risks the health of pregnant women

By Helen Quinn

Two-fifths of Brits experience chronic pain in their mid-forties, study finds

By Rebecca Jenkins

Cannabis products demonstrate ‘short-term reduction in chronic pain, but little else’, researchers suggest

By Katherine Price