At present, there is no provision under Drugs Rules, 1945 to address issues of wrong information to obtain regulatory approvals. Kindly note the image has been published only for representational......
Drug regulator Drugs Controller General of India has asked drug controllers of all states and Union Territories to direct manufacturers under their jurisdiction to monitor the presence of a......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
Roadblocks ahead as these medicines could face new clinical tests, more scrutiny Drug makers that improvise on existing formulations — by using new delivery mechanisms, like time-release,......
The Drug Technical Advisory Board (DTAB), the government’s top advisory body on medicines, is likely to meet on July 19 to review the recent suspension of manufacturing and selling of three......