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Pregabalin moved to Schedule H1 as centre cracks down on drug misusePregabalin, a nerve pain medication, now faces stricter controls. The Union health ministry has moved it to Schedule H1. This change aims t...- Experts back OTC access to NRT across all formats and dosages, including 2 mg and 4 mg, as India struggles with a Tobacco quit success rate under 5%The report highlights the significant economic burden of tobacco use, particularly among low-income households, and underscores how reducin...
- Monitor presence of potentially carcinogenic chemical in Ranitidine: DCGI to drug controllersThe DCGI has directed state and UT drug controllers to monitor levels of the potentially carcinogenic NDMA in Ranitidine, an antacid. This ...
- Govt bans 156 fixed-dose combo drugs over risksFDCs are medicines that combine two or more drugs into a single dosage. The union health and family welfare ministry on Thursday issued a g...
- India's drug regulator cracks down on antibiotic misuse, seeks list of licensed combinationsIndia's drug regulator has directed state counterparts to provide a list of antibiotic combinations licensed for manufacturing and marketin...
- Soon you may need doctor's prescription for cough syrupsThe Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB), India's apex drug advisory body, in its meeting last month was also considering a proposal for e...
- Lens on fixed-dose combination drugs containing vitamins, mineralsA committee had been set up under the chairmanship of CK Kokate, former vice-chancellor of KLE University, Belgaum, to review the safety, e...
- You may soon need prescription for nicotine gums and patchesAs per the existing provisions under Schedule K of Drugs Rules, 1945, nicotine gum and lozenges containing up to 2mg of nicotine are exempt...
- DTAB recommends granting licence to manufacture, stock new drugs, jabs under clinical trialBased on the recommendation, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has sent a draft proposal to the Union Health Ministry for approv...
- Govt to allow sale of some drugs sans prescriptionThe DTAB has approved a list of OTC drugs which includes medicines like antifungal infections, analgesics (pain killers), cough syrups, dec...
- Faulty medical devices: Patients can seek compensationThe move comes on the heels of a controversy surrounding hip implants marketed by US medical device giant Johnson & Johnson.
- Health ministry to ban 328 combination medicines over safety concernsET has viewed parts of the latest ban notifications, which a senior ministry official confirmed would be notified this week.
- New committee to examine safety, rationality of over 300 drugs banned since 2016The committee will be headed by Dr Nilima Kshirsagar, chair of clinical pharmacology at the Indian Council of Medical Research, Mumbai, acc...
- SC for relook into 349 FDC medicines by drug advisory boardThe FDC were banned by the Centre on the grounds that they involved "risk" to humans and safer alternatives were available.
- SC refers 349 FDC medicines to Drug Advisory Board for relookA bench said that the 349 FDCs were banned pursuant to the Kokate Committee report, by notifications of the central government under Sectio...
- Supreme Court asks drugs advisory body to decide fate of over 334 banned combination medicinesCompanies can make and sell the 349 contested fixed dose combination drugs (FDCs) while Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) deliberates o...
- FDCs banned over safety & efficacy concerns: Centre tells HCGovernment told Delhi High Court that the decision to ban 344 fixed dose combination drugs was taken keeping in view "safety, efficacy and ...
- PCMA opposes plan to ban PET container packing for medicinesPCMA has opposed the recommendations of the Health Ministry's DTAB demanding ban on use of PET containers for the packaging of pharmaceutic...
- Health ministry to review ban on Pioglitazone tomorrowIn the wake of opposition from industry and medical fraternity to the ban on anti-diabetes drug Pioglitazone, DTAB will review the decision...
- Govt plans new norms for ads on emergency contraceptive pillsThe government has decided to frame guidelines on advertisements of emergency contraceptive pills (ECP) to ensure consumers be aware of the...
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