According to the outlet, New York-based Pfizer sold over-the-counter ranitidine drugs also known as Zantac from 1998 through 2006. In 2019, a small laboratory in Connecticut found that ranitidine ...

Zantac Litigation is Born “The best starting point involves a private company known as Valisure. Valisure theorized that ranitidine [aka Zantac] has the potential to degrade into a carcinogen known as ...

The FDA has asked drugmakers to pull all prescription and over-the-counter products based on ranitidine off the market immediately, after a review failed to alleviate concerns about a cancer risk.

Plaintiffs argued that the company knew that Zantac’s active ingredient, ranitidine, turned into the potential carcinogen NDMA under certain conditions. The US Food and Drug Administration asked ...

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.

Supplies of the heartburn drug ranitidine have been recalled globally following a cancer scare involving multiple pharma companies, where a carcinogenic impurity is suspected to be present in the ...

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 ...

Over-the-counter treatment Zantac, known also by its non-commercial name ranitidine, was manufactured by several rivals including the French group Sanofi and US drugmaker Pfizer before it was ...

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.