Codeine-containing painkillers may soon no longer be available over the counter in Australian pharmacies. Philippa Willitts/Flickr, CC BY-NC Australia’s drug regulator is looking into reclassifying ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELEANOR HALL: The country's medicines regulator will soon decide whether codeine based pain killers ...

From February 1, 2018 all products that contain codeine will only be available for sale in pharmacies with a prescription. This means you won’t be able to buy brands like Nurofen Plus, Panadeine or ...

For a medicine so commonly found in bathroom cabinets and high street pharmacies, codeine has a surprisingly complicated ...

For the better part of a decade, scientists have been trying to engineer microbes to produce morphine and other opioid painkillers directly from glucose. Some say such engineered microbes could reduce ...

Cough syrup containing codeine could only be available via a GP under new proposals. (Getty Images) Cough syrup – or codeine linctus – could be made prescription-only over concerns of addiction among ...

Australia has become the latest country to ban over-the-counter sales of medications containing the opioid painkiller codeine. The new regulation, which will come into effect on 1 February 2018, is ...

MUMBAI, July 24 (Reuters) - Piramal Healthcare Ltd has got a licence from the Indian government to manufacture Codeine, a narcotic substance, and expects to put up a plant in three years, Chairman ...