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Nurofen is a brand of range of pain-relief medication containing ibuprofen made by the English-Dutch company Reckitt Benckiser. [1] Introduced in 1983, the Nurofen brand was acquired following Reckitt Benckiser's acquisition of Boots healthcare international in 2005 for £1.93 billion, which included Nurofen, Strepsils, and Clearasil. [2]
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It is available under a number of brand names including Advil, Motrin, and Nurofen. [ 8 ] [ 14 ] Ibuprofen was first marketed in 1969 in the United Kingdom and in 1974 in the United States. [ 8 ] [ 13 ] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines . [ 15 ]
Panadol is sold in different formulations and packaging with different names. [9] [19] Panadol Extra, an S2 pharmacy-only medicine in Australia, combines 65 mg of caffeine with 500 mg of paracetamol per tablet. Caffeine may improve the analgesic effect of paracetamol.
Codeine is marketed as both a single-ingredient drug and in combination preparations with paracetamol (as co-codamol: e.g., brands Paracod, Panadeine, and the Tylenol-with-codeine series, including Tylenol 3 and 1, 2, and 4); with aspirin (as co-codaprin); or with ibuprofen (as Nurofen Plus).
By the late 1980s, Nurofen had a 12% share of the analgesics market. Gold Greenlees Trott (GGT), who later bought BBDP then were bought by Omnicom Group in 1998 and made part of TBWA Worldwide, were commissioned to make an advert to markedly increase Nurofen's market share. Analgesics are mainly purchased by 25- to 40-year-old women.
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Although it's a different formulation (i.e. contains different drugs), the articles should be merged, much like the NyQuil article. Fuzzform ( talk ) 23:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC) [ reply ] Don't merge, but if you do, please ensure all links to Nurofen Plus go to the correct subsection with a re-direct or exhaustive code implementation.