Wyeth counters that Phenergan's label contained appropriate warnings that had been vetted by the Food and Drug Administration.

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Doctors had injected her with an antinausea drug called Phenergan, made by Wyeth, which if used improperly can cause gangrene.

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The plaintiff alleged that a Wyeth drug, Phenergan, was improperly injected, with the result that Ms. Diana Levine lost an arm to gangrene.

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One mother of two who did not wish to be identified used the over-the-counter allergy and motion-sickness medicine Phenergan for a recent flight from Australia to the US. She said the first eight hours of the flight were "agony" and that she used the medication as a last resort to help her three-year-old daughter sleep.

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