Tylenol is a North American brand of drugs for relieving pain (analgesic), reducing fever, and relieving the symptoms of allergies (allergy), cold (common cold), cough, and flu. The active ingredient of its original, flagship product, acetaminophen (paracetamol) (called "paracetamol" outside North America), is marketed as an analgesic and antipyretic. Like the words "acetaminophen" and "paracetamol", the brand name is derived from the chemical name for the compound, N-acetyl-para-aminophenol (APAP). The brand is owned by McNeil Consumer Healthcare (McNeil Laboratories), a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.