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Nine common drugs under govt watch list New Delhi: Nine commonly used painkillers, antibiotics and cholesterol controlling medicines have come under the scanner of the Union Health Ministry for adverse side affects, including death and congenital disability. The Ministry identified the nine drugs as part of its national vigilance programme launched Wednesday to monitor drugs that have adverse drug reactions so as to build a database to help in recommending withdrawal of such medicines and their suspension, if needed. These drugs are ’Rosuvastatin’ used as lipid lowering cholesterol-control agent, COX-2 Inhibitors, Analgen and Phenylbutazone used as pain killers, Nimesulide another pain killer, Phenylpropylamine prescribed as nasal decongestant, Thioridazine an antipsychotic drug, Furazolidone an anti-dysentery drug and Gatifloxacin an antibiotic. "Focused monitoring on the nine drugs have been decided today by the team of national pharmacovigilance program. These are those drugs that have reported of side effects in Indian population," Dr Y.K. Gupta, head of the department of pharmacology AIIMS, who is also part of the programme said. The National Pharmacovigilance Program started under the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation of the Ministry is looking at side effects which could cause death, disability, hospitalisation, congenital anomaly and which have life threatening aspects. Back |
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