Zantac News

GSK Settles Another Zantac Cancer Lawsuit in California

GSK Plc settled a US lawsuit set to start in California over the UK drugmaker’s blockbuster heartburn medication Zantac, the second such agreement this month. The company said it had reached a confidential settlement with claimants listed as Boyd/Steenvoord, resolving …

GSK Settles Zantac Case Weeks Before Trial Was Set to Begin

GSK Plc has settled a US lawsuit on heartburn medicine Zantac just weeks before the case was due to be heard in a court in California. The British drugmaker said it had reached a confidential settlement with David Browne and …

First Zantac Cancer Risk Trial in Calif. Postponed Five Months

The first scheduled trial over claims that GSK Plc’s heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, which had been set to begin Monday, has been postponed by five months. The case, brought by California resident James Goetz in Alameda County Superior Court, …

Judge Weighs Key Evidence Ahead of First Zantac Cancer Trial

Lawyers for a man who alleges he developed bladder cancer after taking GSK Plc’s heartburn drug Zantac urged a California judge on Thursday to allow expert testimony linking the drug to the illness at an upcoming trial. The trial in …

Plaintiff Drops Case in First Zantac Suit Set for Trial

The plaintiff in the first lawsuit over the heartburn drug Zantac scheduled to go to trial has agreed to drop his case, according to his attorney and drugmakers named as defendants. Tuesday’s news came days after shares of GlaxoSmithKline Plc …

Plaintiff in First Zantac Lawsuit Set for Trial Drops Case

The plaintiff in the first lawsuit over the heartburn drug Zantac scheduled to go to trial has agreed to drop his case, according to his attorney and drugmakers named as defendants. The news on Tuesday came days after shares of …

Carcinogen Worry Causes Generic Zantac Recall at U.S. Pharmacies

Some generic Zantac is being pulled from major chain pharmacies in the U.S. shortly after French officials recalled all versions of the popular stomach drug amid a global investigation into a carcinogen found in the pills. Canadian drugmaker Apotex Inc. …

Carcinogen in Zantac and Its Generics Triggers Probes by FDA, EU

Global health regulators sounded a coordinated alarm about the possibility that a stomach drug taken by millions of people could be tainted with the same cancer-causing agent that has sparked a worldwide recall of blood-pressure pills. Drug-safety officials in the …