Painkiller

Ten steps back, one step forward: Meditations on pain, uncertainty, and recovery - opinion

The pain after my recent bowel surgery was devastating. For weeks, nothing seemed to help, even while I was hospitalized and had access to the best drugs.

|ByBRIAN BLUM
OPTALGIN WAS out.
People think that if it's an over-the-counter painkiller, there's no reason to worry

Millions of people make this mistake with painkillers – and it's dangerous

Painkillers are sold over the counter and are considered safe, but incorrect combinations, double dosages, and a lack of awareness regarding active ingredients can cause significant harm.

|ByDORON KUPERSTEIN
How to make painkillers work faster

How to make painkillers work faster: 5 tricks from doctors

New studies reveal that the way you swallow a painkiller, what you drink with it and even the position you lie in can significantly change how quickly it takes effect.

|ByDORON KUPERSTEIN
Boxes of paracetamol are pictured on the production line for UPSA brand of Bristol-Myers Squibb Group at the company's factory in Le Passage, near Agen, France March 29, 2018

Why paracetamol – one of the world’s most common painkillers – works

A new Israeli study reveals that paracetamol doesn’t function only in the brain; it also blocks pain at its source by acting on nerve endings in the body.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Painkiller nation?

The steep rise in opioid use here is a real danger to public health

AUGUST 21, 2019ByKARIN SPINGOLD
The steep rise in opioid use here is a real danger to public health