Paracetamol no better than placebo in low-back pain

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Paracetamol no better than placebo in low-back pain

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/paracetamol-no-better-placebo-low-back-pain-231009030.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8OFQEwyNb0ajPhWxYIJ49w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/de74b0d669e2a915ff36971aa61355b6f83af371.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Paracetamol, the first-choice lower-back pain killer, worked no better than dummy drugs administered in a trial of more than 1,600 people suffering from the condition, researchers said" align="left" title="Paracetamol, the first-choice lower-back pain killer, worked no better than dummy drugs administered in a trial of more than 1,600 people suffering from the condition, researchers said" border="0" /></a>Paracetamol, the first-choice lower-back pain killer, worked no better than dummy drugs administered in a trial of more than 1,600 people suffering from the condition, researchers said Thursday. In fact, the median recovery time for those on placebo was a day shorter than that for trial subjects given real medicine, they wrote in The Lancet medical journal. &quot;Our findings suggest that... paracetamol does not affect recovery time compared with placebo in low-back pain, and question the universal endorsement of paracetamol in this patient group,&quot; the Australian team concluded. &quot;Paracetamol also had no effect on pain, disability, function, global symptom change, sleep or quality of life.&quot;</p><br clear="all"/>

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