Zantac and ranitidine are routinely used by millions of heartburn sufferers. So how did the drug become a cancer risk? Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the ...

CVS Pharmacy has suspended the sale of heartburn drug Zantac "out of an abundance of caution." This follows the news that ranitidine products, including Zantac, are being investigated over ...

A probable carcinogen that prompted the recall of several versions of blood pressure-lowering pills has been detected in the heartburn drug Zantac and its generic versions, the Food and Drug ...

Chemical found in Zantac raises concerns 03:26. New York — The nation's three largest pharmacy chains — Walgreens, Rite Aid and CVS — have stopped selling Zantac and its generic alternative ...

Pharmaceutical heavyweight GSK on Wednesday said it had settled four lawsuits in the U.S. that claimed its popular heartburn drug Zantac causes cancer, averting a trial due to start in California ...

A jury in Chicago on Thursday rejected an Illinois woman’s claim that the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused her colon cancer, in the first trial out of thousands of lawsuits making ...

Zantac pharma exec calls heartburn drug safe and effective during testimony against cancer claims The executive, a medical doctor who oversaw drug safety for decades at drugmaker GSK, ...

A jury in Chicago on Thursday rejected an Illinois woman’s claim that the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused her colon cancer, in the first trial out of thousands of lawsuits making ...

A Delaware judge has dismissed a request from GSK Plc (NYSE:GSK) and other pharmaceutical companies to appeal a ruling that allows over 70,000 lawsuits alleging the heartburn drug Zantac causes ...

Zantac exec testifies on claims that heat degraded heartburn drug into cancer-causing substance The plaintiff’s lawyers argue the drug degraded into NDMA when exposed to hot, humid conditions.

After protracted legal battling, GSK has agreed to pay up to $2.2 billion to settle most of the pending lawsuits that claimed a discontinued version of the Zantac heartburn medication caused cancer.

Zantac heartburn pills, Oct. 1, 2019. Photo: BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS. The science that led to Zantac’s withdrawal is very different from the basis of the recently dismissed Zantac litigation ...