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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]
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 ]
Name Available forms Available strengths Countries Act-3: Actiprofen: Canada [3]: Actron: Argentina, Uruguay, Chile Adagin: Romania Addaprin: USA [3]: Adex: Israel ...
On 27 August 2011, Reckitt recalled all remaining stock of its major analgesic product, Nurofen Plus, after packs were found to contain an antipsychotic drug. [30] It turned out that this was the work of a codeine addict who had been stealing the pills and replacing them with his anti psychotic medication. [31]
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.
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).
Making Nurofen into Nurofen (product) and creating a Nurofen (brand) just to remove Nurofen Plus seems illogical. -- Thecurran ( talk ) 02:55, 20 January 2008 (UTC) [ reply ] Blatant advert?
Active and inactive μ-opioid receptors [1] Image of visual pain. Pain management is an aspect of medicine and health care involving relief of pain (pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging.