If you take prescription medicine regularly ... heartburn twice a week or more for a few weeks or if drugs like Mylanta, Pepcid, or Zantac don't provide the relief you need, make that doctor ...

Just the second medication to garner more than $1 billion in annual sales, Zantac hit the US market as a prescription drug in 1983 before becoming an over-the-counter heartburn treatment in 1996.

As the FDA’s investigation continued, they ultimately decided to issue an involuntary recall, pulling all prescription and ...

They are available over-the-counter and on prescription ... production and sale of ranitidine while it investigates the links to cancer. Drug makers are also recalling products containing NDMA.

The FDA has asked drugmakers to pull all prescription and over-the ... existing prescriptions for the gastrointestinal drug, commonly known as Zantac and used to treat conditions like heartburn.

The first lawsuit claiming that gastrointestinal drug Zantac causes cancer has been ... the drug in the early 1980s and sold it as a prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) product for indications ...

In March, they declined, and the amended complaint was filed on May 20. [3] Zantac was one of GSK’s most successful products, the first prescription drug in history to reach $1 billion in sales ...

And because many OTC drugs were once prescription-only ... such as famotidine (Pepcid AC and generic) and ranitidine (Zantac 75, Zantac 150, and generic). If your doctor has diagnosed GERD ...

GSK launched Zantac in 1981 and it was first approved for sale in the US in 1983 as a prescription medication. It went on to become the world's best-selling drug, with annual sales in excess of $1bn.

Tens of thousands of Americans are in line to share $2.2bn (£1.7bn) after GSK agreed a settlement over claims its indigestion drug caused cancers. The British drug giant has agreed to pay up to $2.2bn ...

If you experience any of these for the first time, when taking the drug do consult your doctor. Medindia's A-Z index page eases your search for side effects of prescription and over-the-counter or ...

pulling all prescription and over-the-counter heartburn drugs containing ranitidine from the market on April 1, 2020. GSK continues to deny any liability in these cases saying “…The scientific ...