India's Drug Regulator Sounds Alarm: Your Painkillers May Be Destroying Your Kidneys

India's top drug regulator has issued a stern warning that could change how millions of Indians reach for their medicine cabinet. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on September 21 sounded the alarm on the indiscriminate use of painkillers and antibiotics, linking them directly to the development or worsening of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The advisory targets everyone from hospitals to corner pharmacists to the patient popping a pill without a...