Get ready for some painful news.
Despite what the maker of Nurofen would like you to believe, you can’t cure specific types of pain with its range of pain-relief tablets.
There is no science as yet that lets a tablet know to target period pain over back pain, or that you are suffering from a tension headache instead of a migraine. Shame.
The Australian Federal Court was so convinced about this that it fined Reckitt Benckiser, the British company that manufactures Nurofen, A$1.7 million for breaching consumer laws in a penalty hearing on Friday. Read more…
