Batch number 1K10121 of a co-codamol painkiller is being recalled for safety concerns as they potentially have too little or too much of the active ingredients – codeine phosphate and paracetamol.

A manufacturing error could mean people are unknowingly taking higher strength painkillers than they realise, according to the medicines watchdog. Thousands of packs ...

AROUND 28 million adults in the UK suffer from chronic pain, caused by backache, arthritis or myalgia. So it is perhaps not surprising that every year nearly six million of us are prescribed opioids – ...

A husband-to-be who was so addicted to co-codamol he would take 48 a day says his wife saved his life by giving him the ultimatum: 'choose me or the drug'. Ben Welthy was first prescribed the drug for ...

The UK medicines regulator has issued a warning after the wrong strength of tablets was put into some packets of the painkiller co-codamol. Some packs in batch LL11701, expiry date of September 2014, ...

The UK medicines regulator has issued a warning after the wrong strength of tablets was put into some packets of the painkiller co-codamol. Some packs in batch LL11701, expiry date of September 2014, ...

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