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Combiflam, D Cold Total found substandard by drug regulator: Report

April 21, 2017 Urbanatural

India’s top drug regulator has reportedly found common medication such as Combiflam, D Cold Total and Oflox-100 DT to be substandard in tests run last month. Posted By Divya Chopra The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, which regulates the sale and distribution drugs in India, has reportedly found popular medication like Combiflam, a pain reliever, and D Cold Total, a cold medicine, to be substandard. Comiflam is manufactured by Sanofi India while D Cold Total is made by Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare India. The Indian Express reported that the CDSCO conducted…

Pharma firm lures doctors with gold coins to push its vaccines

February 13, 2017February 9, 2017 Urbanatural

MUMBAI: Pharma firms may be banned from offering incentives to doctors to push their products, but at the annual conference of paediatricians being held in Bengaluru, a flyer carrying ‘Sankranti bonanza’ is doing the rounds, offering items like digital weighing scales, gold coins and stethoscope as gifts for doctors ordering vaccines in bulk for diseases like typhoid and rota virus. While the flyer doesn’t mention the name of any pharmaceutical company, a doctor said it was found only at the booth of one pharmaceutical company. The meeting’s chief organiser, however,…