Slater and colleagues noted that both an international panel [1] and a Cochrane Review from 2010 [2] suggest that oral sucrose or other sugars can reduce acute procedural pain in infants. Most of the ...

China drink brand Genki Forest (Yuanqisenlin (元气森林) has had to apologise for marketing a milk tea brand as having no sucrose, after a state media video discussing the product made it a hot topic ...

Sucrose is a vital energy source in plants. It also drives growth and serves as an important signaling molecule during stress and development. Sucrose is a key product of photosynthesis and the ...

This article describes a meta-analysis of multiple randomized controlled trials that evaluated oral sucrose (or other sugar product) for acute, painful procedures in infants. Harrison and colleagues ...