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 medicines including antibiotics, painkillers, multivitamins: Here is the full listThe Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has banned the manufacture, sale, and distribution of 156 fixed dose combinations. These include ...
23 Aug, 2024, 05.23 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
India bans 14 fixed-dose medicines for likely posing risks to healthThe Indian government has banned 14 types of fixed-dose combination (FDC) medicines due to a lack of therapeutic justification and potentia...
04 Jun, 2023, 08.04 AM IST
Govt bans 14 fixed dose combination drugs, cites they may involve risk to peopleThe expert committee said that there is "no therapeutic justification for this FDC (fixed dose combination) and the FDC may involve risk to...
03 Jun, 2023, 05.41 PM IST
SC exempts painkiller Saridon from the banned list in IndiaThe health ministry had banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of 328 fixed dose combinations (FDCs) of drugs in September last year.
21 Feb, 2019, 02.16 PM IST
Wockhardt moves HC against ban on its fixed dose combination drugWockhardt moved the court as its anti-inflammatory drug -- Ace Proxyvon -- is one of the FDC medicines affected by the Centre's September 7...
14 Sep, 2018, 06.08 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
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
Govt challenges revocation of FDC drug ban in Supreme CourtThe petition comes almost two months after the Delhi HC on December 2 set aside the govt notification that had banned hundreds of fixed dos...
31 Jan, 2017, 01.23 AM IST
Delhi High Court quashes government ban on over 300 medicines like Corex, SaridonThe brands included D'Cold Total, Corex cough syrup, and Vicks Action 500, among others.
01 Dec, 2016, 12.21 PM IST
Delhi High Court verdict on combination drugs ban likely todayEndlaw is expected to give his verdict even as the government has submitted a petition to transfer all FDC cases across the country to the ...
01 Dec, 2016, 07.00 AM IST
Government targets 500 combination drugs, confrontation with pharma companies loomingAccording to a person familiar with the development, the central drug regulator has sent letters to nearly 300 companies, which have sought...
18 Oct, 2016, 01.44 AM IST
HC reserves verdict on pleas against ban on 344 FDCsThe 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...
02 Jun, 2016, 08.01 PM IST
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 ...
31 Mar, 2016, 08.06 PM IST
Delhi HC stays ban on drugs of Wockhardt, Glaxo and GriffonThe court also issued notice to the government on the companies' pleas challenging the notification and listed the petitions for hearing on...
18 Mar, 2016, 04.24 PM IST
Fixed- dose combos ban adds to burden of new essentials listAt least four drugmakers have rushed to court following the ban on more than 300 fixed-dose combination (FDC) medicines.
17 Mar, 2016, 01.52 AM IST