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'Unfair deals' with India will be discussed, says Bangladesh's home affairs adviserBangladesh's interim Home Affairs Adviser, Lt Gen Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, announced that all inequitable agreements with India will be ...
Security agencies fear 'crazy' yaba may find ground in IndiaA dossier prepared by a central security organisation notes that while India at present is a "transit" territory for the circular-shaped an...
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
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.
Supreme Court prescribes pain relief for 15 banned combination drugsThe order effectively brings several popular cough syrups, painkillers and cold medication out of the health ministry’s impending ban list,...
Health ministry likely to ban over 300 combo drugsThe annual sales value of these medicines has shrunk from nearly Rs 3,000 crore in 2016 to Rs 2,183 crore now.
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, ...
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.
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...
Many prohibited drugs available in markets: Ananth KumarKumar said in Lok Sabha that these 439 drugs, including 344 fixed dose combinations, were banned after examination of the samples of the me...
HC to resume hearing on pharma cos' pleas against Centre's orderThe companies have contended that the decision was taken by the government without issuing them a show cause notice or granting them a hear...
Delhi High Court grants interim stay on ban of Abbott’s PhensedylAbbott got a stay on five products in all, including codeine-based formulations and another for management of epilepsy.
P&G stops selling Vicks Action 500 Extra in India after banP&G said all its products, including Vicks Action 500 Extra, were backed by research to support their quality, safety and efficacy.
Shares of Pfizer plunge on the BSE following Corex banHowever, Abbott India that sells another popular cough syrup Phensedyl, also in the list of banned drugs, closed marginally higher.
Pfizer, Abbott stop sale of cough syrups in India post banCorex is a combination of chlopheniramine maleate and codeine syrup - one of 344 drug combinations India banned over the weekend.
Government ban on 350 drugs jolts 4% of pharma retail marketPfizer and Abbott and domestic companies including Alkem, Ipca and MacLeods, and is likely to be contested by companies, sources say.
CID files case against Abbott in cough syrup smuggling caseCID Telangana has registered case against Abbott Health Care Pvt Ltd and their associates in alleged case of smuggling cough syrup 'Phensed...
- Popular drugs a waste of money?
They are some of the most common drugs consumed in India. But PM’s high-level expert group on universal health coverage claims that they ar...
- Piramal Healthcare rethinks plan to set up new drug unit
Piramal Healthcare is reviewing its plans to set up a new unit to make codeine, the basic chemical used to produce best-selling cough syrup...
- Pfizer, Nicholas Piramal hit by codeine shortage
Hit by the shortage of raw material codeine, India’s highest selling drug (in value) Pfizer’s cough syrup Corex has slipped to the eighth s...