Oxytocin

Science of happiness: How to activate your body's natural happy hormones

Serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, endorphins are your natural happy hormones. Here's how simple lifestyle tweaks can lift your mood and lower stress, day after day

Centre to move Supreme Court seeking ban on production of Oxytocin

Delhi HC quashed the government order of restricting the manufacturing and sale of Oxytocin to only one public sector outfit, Karnataka Antibiotics and Pharmaceuticals

Why govt's attempt to ban life-saving hormone Oxytocin was unscientific

The government relied mostly on unsubstantiated media reports, though scientists published several reports disproving alleged adverse effects of the life-saving hormone

Oxytocin ban: Sole producer KAPL struggles with excess capacity, inventory

The firm had capacity to produce five million ampoules of oxytocin in a month; it is in the process of adding another 5.1 million ampoules a month of capacity by October 15, says MD Nirja Saraf

Govt bans imports of hormone oxytocin to halt misuse in livestock industry

India halted retail sales of the prescription-only drug in 2014, but regulators have struggled to curb illegal sales, and the volume of imports is unclear