With 12 million bottles sold each year, Calpol is a medicine cabinet staple in most homes, soothing childhood aches and pains thanks to its main ingredient – paracetamol. But now a leading doctor has ...

Calpol has been dubbed “the heroin of childhood” by a medic in a new investigation into the syrup medicine. Youngsters in the UK are being given too much Calpol unnecessarily it is claimed in a new ...

A doctor found guilty of misconduct after he sent a dying four-year-old girl home with just a mild children's painkiller has been told he can carry on working. The girl, known only as Hannah, died of ...

Calpol has been dubbed “the heroin of childhood” by a medic in a new investigation into the syrup medicine. Youngsters in the UK are being given too much Calpol unnecessarily it is claimed in a new ...

Children's medicine Calpol has been dubbed 'the heroin of childhood' by a doctor who says parents are offering it too willingly. New dad Dr Chris van Tulleken, star of the CBBC show Operation Ouch!, ...

MALTITOL LIQUID: Hydrogenated corn syrup combined with maltitol, a sugar alcohol used as a sugar substitute. SORBITOL LIQUID: Another alcohol sugar used in combination with maltitol liquid to form the ...

The FDA has issued prohibitory orders to all chemists in the state to stop sale of Calpol syrup bottles till further notice. It seized 6,500 packets of the drug worth Rs 2.11 lakh in the raid. "The ...

Youngsters are given so much Calpol unnecessarily it has been dubbed “the heroin of childhood”, a medic says. New dad Dr Chris van Tulleken investigated why the UK spends £64million a year on the ...

Is children’s medicine Calpol really ‘the heroin of childhood’? That’s how the commonly used paracetamol-based syrup has been described in a BBC documentary. New dad Dr Chris van Tulleken, star of the ...