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Ibuprofen: A discovery of global significance
Today, Ibuprofen is used as pain killer and anti-inflammatory. But when it was first launched by Boots, as Brufen in February 1969, it was heralded as the miracle therapy for arthritic problems, particularly Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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Go East Young Man
Frederick Harrison was itching for an adventure when he set sail from Liverpool in February 1941 to join Boots’ export and wholesale business in Calcutta [Kolkata], India. He chronicled his first year with the Kolkata office in his 1993 posthumously…