New Delhi: A committee under India’s apex drug regulator has recommended against using the popular painkiller nimesulide, or its above-100mg dosage strength in oral formulations, as the first line of ...

Background and objective: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are effective analgesics but their use during tonsillectomy is controversial because of the risk of postoperative bleeding. The aim of ...

NEW DELHI: The Centre has banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of all oral formulations of nimesulide above 100 mg in immediate-release form, citing risk to human health and the availability ...

Patient characteristics in the two study groups were very similar ( Table I). Eighty patients were recruited and randomised, but two of these were excluded because one patient had asthma and one ...