Summary:
'Publish drug registry to avoid medical errors'By Rajendra Diwe ;Indian market is flooded with thousands of brands of sound-alike and look-alike drugs. Remembering a vast list of drug names is always a tough task for the prescribers. Drug names are many times similar in spelling and/or in phonetics; categorised as sound-alike drugs. King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM) Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College has published a list of Sound-alike drug names in the Indian market. This could ultimately help India to build a national registry of drug brand names..