GSK (GSK.L), opens new tab 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 ...

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.

An over-the-counter medication sold today as Zantac 360 by Sanofi has a different active ingredient from the withdrawn versions of Zantac and has not raised questions about a cancer link.

The first lawsuit claiming that gastrointestinal drug Zantac causes cancer has been voluntarily dismissed a week before it was due to come to trial, in an early victory for the pharma companies ...

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 suffered ...

GSK has struck a $2.2 billion agreement to settle the vast majority of U.S. lawsuits filed against it over claims its Zantac heartburn remedy causes cancer. The British drugmaker’s settlement ...

Corrects headline to say 'settlements' instead of 'settlement' British pharmaceutical company GSK said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $2.3 billion in the United States to put an end to lawsuits ...

(Reuters) -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 ...

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.

(WJET/WFXP) — UK-based pharmaceutical giant GSK, or GlaxoSmithKline, has announced that it has agreed to settle nearly 80,000 state-level Zantac cases. The lawsuits claimed that the now ...