Back pain medications do more harm than good

… and arguably not of any clinical significance,” she said. The work by researchers at The George Institute for Global Health is the latest study to question the effectiveness of medicines for treating back pain. Yet most clinical guidelines recommend …

TGA decision will boost Maxigesic sales in Australia

The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has today confirmed an interim decision that all medicines containing codeine be rescheduled to prescription-only medicines effective 1 February 2018. The TGA will up-schedule these products due to the risk of dependence and adverse events compared to safer analgesic products also available over-the-counter, including paracetamol-ibuprofen combinations such as Maxigesic .