Panel to take a call on doorstep medicine deliveryIndia's drug advisory body is considering the future of doorstep medicine delivery, initiated during the Covid pandemic. The All-India Orga...
03 May, 2025, 08.49 PM IST
More fixed-dose combo drugs may enter ban listThe Indian government recently banned 156 fixed-dose combination drugs, citing health risks. An expert committee found these combinations l...
26 Aug, 2024, 11.28 PM IST
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...
23 Aug, 2024, 01.29 AM IST
Preventing misleading claims: Ads for diabetes, oncology drugs may need approvalThe government is looking to regulate advertisements for anti-diabetes, sex hormone, and oncology drugs by amending the Drugs and Cosmetics...
16 Jul, 2024, 12.36 AM IST
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...
18 May, 2024, 12.17 AM IST
Health Ministry prohibits sale of Ketoprofen and Aceclofenac to conserve vulturesIn a boost to conserve vultures in the country, the health ministry has prohibited sale of two veterinary drugs-Ketoprofen and Aceclofenac....
02 Aug, 2023, 04.18 PM IST
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...
01 Jul, 2023, 12.41 AM IST
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...
28 Jun, 2023, 06.55 AM IST
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...
10 Feb, 2022, 08.38 PM IST
Government prohibits 328 fixed dose combinationsThe ban is effective immediately and may shave off over Rs 1,500 crore from India’s Rs 1.18 lakh crore pharmaceutical industry
13 Sep, 2018, 10.32 AM IST
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.
12 Sep, 2018, 08.07 AM IST
Panel recommends ban on 343 fixed dose combination medicinesThis report will be sent to the health ministry in the next two weeks, following which the government will decide the fate of these drugs, ...
26 Jul, 2018, 11.31 AM IST
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.
16 Dec, 2017, 05.57 PM IST
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...
15 Dec, 2017, 12.31 PM IST
Delhi High Court refuses to vacate stay on drug banDelhi HC has declined to vacate the stay earlier granted to certain drug brands banned by the health ministry, and said it would hear all f...
30 Mar, 2016, 10.21 AM IST
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...
27 Dec, 2013, 10.00 PM IST
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...
18 Jul, 2013, 05.37 PM IST