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Centre bans 156 drugs used for fever, pain, allergies

FDC drugs are those which contain a combination of two or more active pharmaceutical ingredients in a fixed ratio and are also referred to as 'cocktail' drugs. Please note, image used only for......

Why Govt Wants To Ban These Cough Meds

Codeine-based formulations are under the scanner for misuse as a narcotic product. IMAGE: In July, the government for the first time allowed a private company, Bajaj Healthcare, to process opium......

COVID vaccine likely to be available by first of 2021: Choubey

If the advanced clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine succeed, then an effective vaccination is likely to be available by the end of first quarter of 2021, Minister of State for Health Ashwini......

COVID-19: 'Good behaviour will reduce deaths'

'We cannot be naughty and expect the government to do good!''We have to behave ourselves and then we can expect the government to support us.''If we are able to protect ourselves well, then we......

Soumya Swaminathan: Just what the doctor ordered

Soumya Swaminathan’s appointment as World Health Organisation’s deputy director offers an opportunity to push for improving the medical research environment in India, reports Veena......

Medical devices to be treated as drugs from next fiscal

The new regime aims to bring in ease of doing business, as the NITI Aayog has proposed to do away with the need to have manufacturing licences to register medical devices or to get a certificate of......

Saridon, Piriton and 2 other drugs kept out of banned list

The Delhi high court had earlier allowed Indian pharma major Wockhardt to sell its Ace Proxyvon tablets, which is a mixture of three salts -- aceclofenac, paracetamol and rabeprazol -- a......

328 fixed-dose combination drugs banned on safety grounds

The original list had named 349 drugs, but 15 drugs, which include cough and cold medicines Phensedyl and Tixylix, approved prior to 1988, have been kept outside the purview of the ban The health......

Over 340 drugs to go off the shelves soon

Some of the popular brands that would be impacted include Phensedyl (Abbott), Tixylix (Abbott), Gluconorm PG (Lupin), Ascoril D (Glenmark), Solvin Cold (Ipca), D Cold Total (Paras Pharma). The......

Why govt's drive to promote generic drugs is flawed

Experts believe the move will have little impact given limited production of generic drugs and authority of doctors in prescribing medicines. The government has made it mandatory for all chemists......

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Centre bans 156 drugs used for fever, pain, allergies

Why Govt Wants To Ban These Cough Meds

COVID vaccine likely to be available by first of 2021: Choubey

COVID-19: 'Good behaviour will reduce deaths'

Soumya Swaminathan: Just what the doctor ordered

Medical devices to be treated as drugs from next fiscal

Saridon, Piriton and 2 other drugs kept out of banned list

328 fixed-dose combination drugs banned on safety grounds

Over 340 drugs to go off the shelves soon

Why govt's drive to promote generic drugs is flawed

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