In a significant public health initiative, the ban on 16 fixed-dose drug combinations, including various antibiotics and topical formulatio...

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The Indian government recently banned 156 fixed-dose combination drugs, citing health risks. An expert committee found these combinations l...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has banned the manufacture, sale, and distribution of 156 fixed dose combinations. These include ...

The expert committee said that there is "no therapeutic justification for this FDC (fixed dose combination) and the FDC may involve risk to...

The issue has been discussed for years now, and was deliberated in several Drugs Consultative Committee meetings held since 2008.

Wockhardt moved the court as its anti-inflammatory drug -- Ace Proxyvon -- is one of the FDC medicines affected by the Centre's September 7...

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, ...

Companies can make and sell the 349 contested fixed dose combination drugs (FDCs) while Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) deliberates o...

A Central government notification banning 344 such fixed-dose combinations in 2016 was set aside by the Delhi High Court in December.

Nadda admitted that situation was a result of lack of coordination between various state licencing authorities and Drugs Controller General...

The government reserved the right to ban drugs in spite of DCGI’s approval as it was conducting a legislative exercise detached from the re...

The Centre can ban even those drugs approved by the highest drug regulatory authority, the government maintained at the Delhi High Court on...

Nearly 40 per cent of doctors disagreed with the government's move to ban 344 fixed dose combination drugs, a survey said.

The government had banned the sale of 344 fixed dose combination drugs.A fixed dose combination drug is a mix of two or more drugs in a sin...