Tylenol

It would be impossible to guess how much money McNeil Consumer Healthcare, now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has made since it began selling Tylenol in 1955.

Join host Cameron English as he sits down Dr. Josh Bloom to break down these stories on Episode 36 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

Reading the medical literature – that is, articles reporting studies of various aspects of health and disease – can be enlightening.  It’s how we docs keep up with new knowledge and progress, after all, but it can also be frustrating – for ex

A decade ago, most people thought of Tylenol (acetaminophen) as a medicine for fever, malaise and minor aches and pains.

There is an urgent need for research in the area of pain management. Since the 1890s, when aspirin and heroin were discovered, there has been agonizingly little progress in this field.

Well, this was sure eye-opening.

There has been considerable speculation that NSAIDs might be harmful to people who are suffering from the aches and pains of a COVID infection. Back in March Olivier Vér

It should be fairly clear that I'm not a big fan of Tylenol.

The anti-opioid crusade remains alive and well (unlike the pain patients who are the victims of it).

It hasn't been a good year for U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams.