- Health Ministry bans three drugs in the country
Health Ministry has banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of painkiller Analgin, anti-diabetes drug Pioglitazone and anti-depressan...
Health ministry bans two drugs Analgin and Pioglitazone; industry protestsThe health ministry has suspended the sale of two drugs - painkiller Analgin and anti-diabetes drug Pioglitazone and all its combinations.
Gvernment bans sale of painkillerThe government has banned the sale of pain-relieving medicine, dextropropoxyphene, in a move that is expected to impact pharma companies' b...
Government may suspend sale of banned drugs taking cue from global drug regulatorsIndia plans to suspend sale of medicines that are banned in one of the six major global drug markets for harmful side-effects.
Drugs banned abroad may still be of use in some cases“However, the riskbenefit ratio is context specific and dosage specific,” says Dhananjay Bakhle, executive vice-president, medical research...
Drugs banned abroad may still be of use in some casesWhile certain drugs that are more harmful than efficacious need to be banned. However, not all drugs banned abroad need to be banned in Ind...
- Pharmaceutical companies targeting smaller cities for drug trials
'The trial for a drug Rifaximin took place at Kota, Jaipur & Mumbai. “Kota and Jaipur can hardly be classified cosmopolitan in demography '...