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[citation needed] Also by then, "a wave of recalls" had taken place. [21] Some of the lawsuits, which by October 2021 included over 100,000 plaintiffs, [5] were filed due to impending statute of limitations laws; estimates of how many people used Zantac have been given as high as 15 million. [citation needed] Facets of the legal rangling included:
First approved in 1983, Zantac became the world's best selling medicine in 1988 and one of the first-ever drugs to top $1 billion in annual sales. Originally marketed by a forerunner of GSK, it ...
Sanofi discontinued the ranitidine formulation of Zantac, and the new formulation, Zantac 360, is made with a different active ingredient.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sanofi has reached an agreement in principle to settle 4,000 U.S. lawsuits linking the discontinued heartburn drug Zantac to cancer, the company said on Wednesday. Sanofi did ...
(Reuters) -Pfizer has agreed to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits about cancer risks related to the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people ...
Ranitidine, previously sold under the brand name Zantac [a] among others, is a medication used to decrease stomach acid production. [12] It was commonly used in treatment of peptic ulcer disease , gastroesophageal reflux disease , and Zollinger–Ellison syndrome . [ 12 ]
Ranitidine (Zantac) 2020 Worldwide Found to spontaneously break down into the carcinogen N-nitrosodimethylamine. Rapacuronium (Raplon) 2001 US, multiple markets Withdrawn in many countries because of risk of fatal bronchospasm. [2] Remoxipride: 1993 UK, others Aplastic anemia. [3] rhesus rotavirus vaccine-tetravalent (RotaShield) 1999 US
The drugmaker has settled a series of lawsuits related to Zantac over the past 12 months, including several in California. California is generally seen as a more challenging legal environment for ...