Outcome of Patients Receiving Radiation for Cancer of the Esophagus: Results of the 1992-1994 Patterns of Care Study PURPOSE: Anticancer drugs may induce acute mucosal injury to stomach and duodenum.

Four months after GSK settled a key case in California over its heartburn medication Zantac, AstraZeneca is following suit, agreeing to resolve personal injury claims over its heartburn drugs Nexium ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it is requesting manufacturers remove all prescription and over-the-counter ranitidine drugs from the market immediately. This is the latest ...

NEW YORK, July 31 (Praxis Press) Previous studies have shown that omeprazole sodium is more effective than ranitidine hydrochloride in controlling symptoms of heartburn in patients with ...

(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration is requesting that manufacturers pull all prescription and over-the-counter ranitidine drugs, known by the brand name Zantac, from the market immediately, ...

The bad news for heartburn sufferers, of course, is that Zantac and its ranitidine generics have, perhaps for years, contained a suspected carcinogen without the FDA knowing it. The good news is that ...

All over-the-counter and prescription ranitidine medications-- commonly known by the brand name Zantac -- should be removed from the market “immediately,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

The stomach-acid-blocking drug Zantac was prescribed more than 15 million times a year with little worry about the safety of the medication, available for decades. How did a drug routinely used by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. — The US Food and Drug Administration is ...