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.

GSK and other drugmakers fending off litigation claiming that gastrointestinal drug Zantac or a generic caused cancer have won a supreme court ruling in Canada, after also chalking up wins in the US.

In September 2019, the FDA announced that a small amount of cancer-causing chemicals, known as N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), were found in certain heartburn medications, such as Zantac.

Operating profit at GSK fell by 86 per cent due to a charge related to the settlement of Zantac settlements the company said ...

葛兰素史克 在美国州法院Zantac案件中达成高达22亿美元的和解协议。 葛兰素史克公司周三表示，已与10家原告公司达成协议，这些公司占美国州法院 ...

“This [whistleblower] case is not about whether the NDMA in ranitidine causes cancer. … That issue is at the heart of personal injury lawsuits related to ranitidine causing individual consumers cancer ...

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.

Shares in pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) surged more than 6% after the company revealed it had reached a settlement of up to $2.2bn (€2.01bn) to end tens of thousands of lawsuits ...

GSK earlier this month agreed to pay $2.3 billion to end lawsuits alleging that Zantac caused cancer, despite the group not admitting liability. Stripping out the litigation costs, GSK said ...

Cancer fatalism-the belief that death is inevitable when cancer is present-has been identified as a barrier to participation in cancer screening, detection, and treatment. Yet this literature has ...

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