The government is likely to ban more fixed dose combinations (FDCs) this month. An expert committee found that these FDCs lack therapeutic ...

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

FDCs are medicines that combine two or more drugs into a single dosage. The union health and family welfare ministry on Thursday issued a g...

In a letter dated December 18, the drug regulator said that FDC (fixed-dose combination) chlorpheniramine maleate and phenylephrine should ...

A committee had been set up under the chairmanship of CK Kokate, former vice-chancellor of KLE University, Belgaum, to review the safety, e...

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

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

These cocktail drugs were licensed for manufacture and marketed by the state licensing authority. The 19 FDCs are commonly used for conditi...

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

What was the urgency for banning the manufacture and sale of over 300 FDC medicines and how can approval DCGI be disregarded completely, De...

The HC asked the government whether it needed to consider the validity of licences held by pharma companies producing the combination drugs...

The companies termed as "absurd" the government's claim that it took the decision to ban the FDCs on the ground that safer alternatives wer...

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

Pfizer and Abbott and domestic companies including Alkem, Ipca and MacLeods, and is likely to be contested by companies, sources say.

Fair trade regulator CCI has approved Torrent Pharma's proposed Rs 2,000 crore acquisition of Elder Pharma's formulations business in India...

The game may soon be up for drug-makers who dodge price control by effecting minor changes in the composition of a drug or by changing its ...