The Supreme Court on Friday upheld high court rulings that the Japanese unit of British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC bore no liability over fatal side effects caused by the lung cancer drug Iressa.
The top court thus turned down appeals from relatives of patients who died from side effects of the drug. It previously did not accept appeals against lower court rulings absolving the central government of liability over the deaths.
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