The Union Health Ministry has issued an advisory against prescribing or administering cough syrups for cold and cough symptoms among children younger than 2 years old, after the death of nineteen ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued an alert against three contaminated cough syrups - Coldrif, Respifresh TR, and ReLife from Sresan Pharmaceutical, Rednex Pharmaceuticals, and Shape ...
The death toll from the consumption of 'toxic' cough syrup has increased to 19 in Madhya Pradesh, after two children aged 2 and 3 years passed away (Image source: Pixabay) The death toll from the ...
The WHO is seeking clarification on deaths linked to Coldrif cough syrup in India, citing a regulatory gap in screening locally sold medicines. The syrup contained diethylene glycol (DEG) at levels ...
The Bengal Chemists and Druggists Association (BCDA) on Thursday (October 9, 2025) directed all retail and wholesale medicine sellers in the state to halt the sale and purchase of the Coldrif cough ...
The Haryana Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) have issued show cause notices to four pharmaceutical companies for misbranding cough-cold syrups containing phenylephrine hydrochloride and ...
The last words Afsana Khan heard from her son, Usaid, were the lines of a nursery rhyme — “Anaar ka meetha daana (The sweet seed of the pomegranate).” A drowsy and weak Usaid had tried to recite the ...
The manufacturing licence of Tamil Nadu based Sresan Pharmaceutical company involved in making the adulterated cough syrup Coldrif has completely been revoked, and the company has been ordered to shut ...
G Ranganathan, owner of Sresan Pharmaceuticals, has been arrested by a Madhya Pradesh team in connection with the toxic Coldrif cough syrup linked to 21 deaths. Ranganathan, a veteran in the ...
After the death of around 22 children due to the consumption of a an adulterated cough syrup, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has also raised an alarm regarding the sale and use of Coldrif and two ...
The pharmaceutical company owner, the key accused in the cough syrup tragedy that has claimed over a dozen children's lives in Madhya Pradesh, was arrested by the state police after a dramatic ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday issued a health advisory warning against the use and distribution of three cough syrups believed to be responsible for the deaths of several children in ...