Amid drug quality and patient safety concerns, the Union Health Ministry has amended rules that earlier gave exemptions to cough syrups from manufacturing, distribution, and retail licensing ...

India’s new cough syrup rules explained: are they truly prescription-only, or a regulatory illusion? Explore what the ...

NEW DELHI, May 23 (Reuters) - India will make tests mandatory for cough syrups before they are exported, a government notice showed on Tuesday, after Indian-made cough syrups were linked to the deaths ...

The June 9 amendment changes how syrup-based medicines are sold nationwide Schedule K no longer includes syrups among exempt drug categories Government finalised the rule after reviewing objections to ...

Buying cough syrup without a doctor's prescription may no longer be possible after the Centre withdrew a decades-old exemption that allowed certain syrup formulations to be sold under relaxed ...