BEN SPENCER, SCIENCE REPORTER FOR THE DAILY MAIL, PUBLISHED 28 May 2015
Paracetamol-linked liver failure, so severe a patient needs a transplant, happens in UK 8 times more than Holland, and twice as often as in France
Rates are 66 times higher in Britain than in Italy, new figures reveal
Study of 7 countries found only Ireland had worse rates than Britain
Paracetamol causes highest liver failure in British Isles
Louise Naughton, Published 28 May 2015
UK paracetamol overdose rate ‘twice the European average’
Caroline Price, Published 29 May 2015
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/uk-paracetamol-overdose-rate-twice-the-european-average/20010101.article
UK paracetamol overdose rate ‘twice the European average’
Acute liver failure caused by paracetamol overdosing is twice as common in the UK as in other European countries, a study of data from the mid-2000s has revealed.
Caroline Price, Published 29 May 2015
Large but unexplained variations in paracetamol-induced liver failure among European countries
29 May 2015