The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and international health authorities are investigating the safety of Zantac heartburn medicine, also sold generically as ranitidine, after finding a probable cancer-causing impurity https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fda-heartburn/fda-says-finds-unacceptable-level-of-carcinogen-in-zantac-and-its-generics-idUSKBN1WH1LA in the drug. Ranitidine is the newest drug in which presence of cancer causing impurities have been found. Glaxo Holdings Ltd, now a part of GlaxoSmithKline PLC , receives its first U.S. FDA approval for Zantac as a short-term treatment of a common form of ulcers. …read more
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