Zantac's risk appears to be the unstable nature of the drug itself, said Valisure CEO David Light. “This isn’t some new, bad manufacturing process overseas like what happened with valsartan ...

A jury in Chicago on Thursday rejected an Illinois woman’s claim that the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused her colon cancer, in the first trial out of thousands of lawsuits making ...

Zantac, once one of the world's best-selling drugs, is now at the center of a massive legal battle. For decades, its manufacturer, Glaxo (now GlaxoSmithKline or GSK), allegedly concealed the ...

GSK Plc shares surged after the UK pharma company agreed to pay as much as $2.2 billion to resolve about 80,000 US court cases alleging that its old reflux medication Zantac was contaminated with ...

CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - A jury in Chicago on Thursday rejected an Illinois woman’s claim that the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused her colon cancer, in the first trial out of ...

Zantac exec testifies on claims that heat degraded heartburn drug into cancer-causing substance The plaintiff’s lawyers argue the drug degraded into NDMA when exposed to hot, humid conditions.

More than 100,000 Zantac cases remain active in state courts around the country. The claim is not that Zantac (ranitidine)an antacid, per se, is dangerous.Rather, it is that, over time and intense ...

The science that led to Zantac’s withdrawal is very different from the basis of the recently dismissed Zantac litigation (“The Zantac Scare and Junk Science,” Review & Outlook, Dec. 9). The ...

Key Background. Zantac, sold generically as ranitidine, was a best-seller and one of the first drugs to achieve blockbuster status by topping $1 billion in annual sales. The drug, used to treat ...

Zantac pharma exec calls heartburn drug safe and effective during testimony against cancer claims The executive, a medical doctor who oversaw drug safety for decades at drugmaker GSK, ...

GSK has agreed to pay up to $2.2 billion to settle most lawsuits in U.S. state courts claiming that a discontinued version of the heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, the company announced on ...

The press typically treats lawsuits against business as inherently righteous and amplifies the junk science behind them. So in case you missed it, a federal judge on Tuesday dismissed claims that ...