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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 next month as it and other pharma firms work to manage looming legal threats from the discontinued medication.The company said it has also settled three “bellwether” breast cancer cases in California and will be dismissed from the cases and related pre-trial hearings.
The pharma firm said it will “continue to vigorously defend itself based on the facts and the science in all other Zantac cases.”drugs to achieve blockbuster status by topping $1 billion in annual sales. The drug, used to treat ulcers and relieve heartburn, was developed and brought to market in the early 1980s by Glaxo Holdings, a British company that would later form a part of GlaxoSmithKline, or GSK.
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