Posted on 05/09/2024 6:22:49 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Pfizer has agreed to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits which alleged that the company failed to warn patients about possible cancer risks caused by the anti-heartburn medication Zantac.
The lawsuits were filed in state courts across the country, but the agreements don’t completely resolve Pfizer’s exposure to the claims linking Zantac and cancer, according to Bloomberg News.
Terms of the settlements were not disclosed.
The Post has sought comment from Pfizer.
Zantac was brought to market in 1983 by Glaxo Holdings, a company that is now part of the GlaxoSmithKline company.
By 1988, it was the world’s best selling drug as patients reported benefits for conditions such as heartburn, ulcers and acid reflux.
Glaxo’s patent for Zantac’s active ingredient, ranitidine, expired in 1997.
That same year, pharmaceutical companies began working on generic versions of the drug.
In 2020, the Food and Drug Administration asked drugmakers to pull Zantac and its generic versions off the market after a cancer-causing substance called NDMA was found in samples of the drug.
Thousands of lawsuits began piling up in federal and state courts against Pfizer, GSK, Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim.
Last month, Sanofi reached an agreement in principle to settle 4,000 lawsuits linking Zantac to cancer.
Sanofi did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, but Bloomberg News reported that the company will pay $100 million — or $25,000 to each plaintiff.
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Cheaper by the dozen..
The board of Pfizer and the korporate officers need to be forced to take Zantac for the rest of their lives.
They have no intention to cure cancer. They want to create more cancer.
I knew that approach was bad
Zantac——
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Here ... Take This.
I’ve lost all confidence in big Pharma. All these commercials where they are asking to to run to you doctor to get some new miracle drug. When you hear all the side effects from that crap they are pushing it makes the initial condition preferable.
If there was a cure for cancer, it would be forbidden to manufacture, sell or possess.
How about the ones they push that don’t announce the side effects for?
“Legalized” drug pushers can kill you without worrying about incarceration or elimination.
“..If there was a cure for cancer, it would be forbidden to manufacture, sell or possess....”
Except for our highly esteemed “ruling elite” that exempted themselves from the clot shot jab....
“When you hear all the side effects from that crap they are pushing it makes the initial condition preferable.”
No kidding. I heard the LONG list of possible side effects for some new drug a few days ago. The list went on and on and on....and even further on. I had the same thought as you — “Whatever ails you is preferable to that drug.”
$25,000, huh? How generous of them! How about free cancer drugs as long as necessary? Plus punitive damages for pain and suffering. Hell enlarges its mouth to receive these drug makers. $25,000 is a spit in the ocean when it comes to the cost of cancer treatment.
Pfizer...killing people...one prescription drug at a time.
But their vaccine is perfectly safe.....
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