Tylenol is over 130 years old — why is it still the gold-standard painkiller?

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Tylenol is over 130 years old — why is it still the gold-standard painkiller?

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Nature, Published online: 24 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03116-2

Acetaminophen is one of the safest drugs around, but scientists still don’t know how it reduces pain and fever.

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