2 h. ago India flags testing lapses at pharma firms after cough syrup deaths

India flags testing lapses at pharma firms after cough syrup deaths  Reuters

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5 h. ago India flags testing lapses at pharma firms after cough syrups deaths

India flags testing lapses at pharma firms after cough syrups deaths  Reuters

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5 h. ago Centre Suggests Banning 'Coldrif' Cough Syrup Maker; Ball In Tamil Nadu FDA's Court

A government inspection found unbilled containers of DEG, a highly toxic chemical, at Srisan Pharma's factory.

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6 h. ago Exclusive: Coldrif Cough Syrup Contains Salt Banned 2 Years Ago For Children Under 4

Exclusive: Coldrif Cough Syrup Contains Salt Banned 2 Years Ago For Children Under 4  NDTV

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10 h. ago Cough Syrup Deaths: Toll In MP's Chhindwara Rises To 16 As Two More Kids Die

Earlier, the state government had confirmed the deaths of 14 children from Chhindwara who had allegedly consumed the cough syrup Coldrif, samples of which were found to have toxic contents.

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23 h. ago In Focus Podcast | Cough syrup deaths: Where is India going wrong with its medicines

In Focus Podcast | Cough syrup deaths: Where is India going wrong with its medicines  The Hindu

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30 h. ago Supreme Court Moved For CBI Inquiry Into MP Children's Deaths Linked To Cough Syrup

The PIL filed by a lawyer seeks a retired Supreme Court judge-monitored probe and inquiry into the manufacture, regulation, testing and distribution of contaminated cough syrups.

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33 h. ago Cough Syrup Deaths: NHRC Issues Notices To Three States, DCGI

The authority has also directed to order all the Chief Drugs Controllers in the concerned states to process immediately banning of the spurious drugs and submit reports.

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34 h. ago Delhi Government Asks Hospitals To Follow Centre's Advisory On Rational Use Of Cough Syrups In Children

The Union government, in its advisory dated Oct. 3, had urged states and Union Territories to promote the judicious prescribing and dispensing of cough syrups for children.

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40 h. ago Karnataka Bans Cough, Cold Syrups For Children Under 2 Years

The Karnataka Health Department on Monday issued an advisory to healthcare institutions in the state not to prescribe or dispense cough and cold syrups to children below the age of two, following...

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41 h. ago Jharkhand Bans Cough Syrups Following Children Death In Other States

The Jharkhand government imposed an immediate ban on the sale and use of three cough syrups Coldrif, Respifresh, and Relife following reports of child deaths allegedly linked to the medicines in...

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46 h. ago Production, Quality And Distribution: Trifecta Behind Cough Syrup Deaths

Vats of chemicals being heated on gas stoves, plastic pipes oozing residue, rusted equipment and untrained workers - inspectors were in for a shock when they reached the premises where 'Coldrif' cough...

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47 h. ago Cough Syrup Tragedy: Madhya Pradesh Acts, Cracks Down, Suspends Officials

The death of 16 children - after they consumed Coldrif cough syrup - in Chhindwara has pushed the Madhya Pradesh government into an administrative overhaul.

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47 h. ago Anger and grief in India after 14 children die from toxic cough syrup

Anger and grief in India after 14 children die from toxic cough syrup  Al Jazeera

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48 h. ago Police launch manslaughter probe into India's cough syrup deaths

Police launch manslaughter probe into India's cough syrup deaths  Reuters

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49 h. ago India Probes Contaminated Cough Syrup Link to at Least 14 Deaths

India Probes Contaminated Cough Syrup Link to at Least 14 Deaths  Bloomberg.com

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52 h. ago Maharashtra FDA Flags Coldrif Syrup Batch Linked To Child Deaths

As many as 14 child deaths have been reported from Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district due to suspected renal failure, linked to the consumption of the "toxic" cough syrup.

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52 h. ago Toxic Cough Syrup Scare: What Went Wrong And Why All Syrups Aren't Unsafe

Recent child deaths and hospitalisations linked to a contaminated cough syrup have raised fears across India.

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53 h. ago Can scapegoating doctors ever end India's deadly cough syrup tragedies?

Can scapegoating doctors ever end India's deadly cough syrup tragedies?  India Today

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53 h. ago 'Poison Fed As Medicine': They Had A Cold, A Cough Syrup Killed Them

16 children and a medicine that ended up killing them -- the cough syrup tragedy in Madhya Pradesh has exposed massive gaps in drug testing processes that led to children's deaths and left their...

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