The Indian government has banned 14 types of fixed-dose combination (FDC) medicines due to a lack of therapeutic justification and potentia...

The health ministry had banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of 328 fixed dose combinations (FDCs) of drugs in September last year.

The ban is effective immediately and may shave off over Rs 1,500 crore from India’s Rs 1.18 lakh crore pharmaceutical industry

This report will be sent to the health ministry in the next two weeks, following which the government will decide the fate of these drugs, ...

The FDC were banned by the Centre on the grounds that they involved "risk" to humans and safer alternatives were available.

A bench said that the 349 FDCs were banned pursuant to the Kokate Committee report, by notifications of the central government under Sectio...

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The brands included D'Cold Total, Corex cough syrup, and Vicks Action 500, among others.

Citigroup sees limited scope for further deterioration in Cadilla Healthcare financials.

Given low utilisation, incremental capex should be low, cautions the global investment bank. The near-term capex should stay high at $200mn...

Under the non-NLEM category, growth in May for domestic players and MNCs almost doubled to 9 per cent and 7.1 pc as against April's 4.6 pc ...

The court had on March 14 stayed the Centre's ban on 344 FDC drugs and this interim order was passed in each and every case filed before it...

The Centre is not influenced by actions previously taken by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), who had granted the approvals to t...

Pharmaceutical companies have long used India as a dumping ground for irrational fixed dose combination (FDC) drugs rejected by other count...

Justice RS Endlaw asked the companies to provide a list of the drugs for which they were issued licenses by state licensing authorities (SL...

India's drug pricing watchdog National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has moved in to back the health ministry.

The court also issued notice to the government on the companies' pleas challenging the notification and listed the petitions for hearing on...