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  • Getty Images A study finds a link between pain-reliever use and risk of hearing loss.

    Say What? New Risk in Pain-Reliever Use Jeremy Singer-Vine 2010

  • Some of the products also contain other ingredients, like the pain-reliever, fever-reducer acetaminophen, which can cause liver damage when overused or combined with alcohol, and the decongestant pseudoephedrine, which can increase blood pressure.

    FDA looks to curb “robo-tripping” 2010

  • Obediently, she swallowed the four pain-reliever tablets he brought her, then leaned back against the cushions, eyes closed, listening to him move about her apartment with an easy familiarity.

    Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

  • Obediently, she swallowed the four pain-reliever tablets he brought her, then leaned back against the cushions, eyes closed, listening to him move about her apartment with an easy familiarity.

    Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

  • Obediently, she swallowed the four pain-reliever tablets he brought her, then leaned back against the cushions, eyes closed, listening to him move about her apartment with an easy familiarity.

    Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

  • Some of the products also contain other ingredients, like the pain-reliever, fever-reducer acetaminophen, which can cause liver damage when overused or combined with alcohol, and the decongestant pseudoephedrine, which can increase blood pressure.

    FDA looks to curb “robo-tripping” 2010

  • Other recalled drugs included hypertension pills amlodipine and doxazosin and pain-reliever naproxen.

    U.K. Issues Recall Of Various Generics 2009

  • Glaxo's consumer health-care unit, which sells nonprescription medicines, toothpaste and drinks, grew 4% at constant exchange rates to £1.1 billion, with smoking-cessation products and the Panadol pain-reliever performing well.

    Generic Competition, Charges Hurt Glaxo's Net 2009

  • This suggests that our $1 trillion "stimulus" package is but a mere pain-reliever: at best a balm of temporary effectiveness that addresses the symptoms of our present ills, and not their cause.

    Ronald J. Colombo: A Crisis of Character 2009

  • One of her assistants brought her a small round vase, containing a powerful pain-reliever based on opium.

    The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

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