GSK shares jumped as much as 6.5% on Thursday after the British drugmaker struck a $2.2 billion settlement over U.S. lawsuits that alleged its discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer.
A hearing will get underway in Delaware later today in the latest phase of GSK’s attempts to defend itself from allegations that its Zantac drug caused cancer in patients. The three-day hearing ...
Class action and personal injury lawsuits have been filed in US courts after the Food and Drug Administration warned in 2019 that some ranitidine drugs including Zantac contained low levels of an ...
UK pharmaceutical giant GSK says it will pay as much as $2.2bn (£1.68bn) to settle thousands of cases in US courts over claims that a discontinued version of its heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer.
The British drugmaker’s settlement with 10 separate law firms resolves 93% of all U.S. cases currently filed against GSK over claims its popular Zantac drug contained the carcinogen N ...
British pharmaceutical company GSK on Wednesday said it swung into a net loss in the third quarter after settling lawsuits in the United States surrounding its Zantac heartburn drug.
GSK launched Zantac in 1981 and it was first approved for sale in the US in 1983 as a prescription medication. It went on to become the world's best-selling drug, with annual sales in excess of $1bn.
The discontinued version of the drug, Zantac, had triggered 80,000 lawsuits from 10 different law firms in the US and has hung over the FTSE 100 drugmaker in recent months. However, the settlement ...
GSK Plc said it will pay as much as $2.2 billion to resolve about 80,000 US court cases related to allegations that its old reflux medication Zantac was contaminated with a suspected carcinogen.