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Pfizer, by the way, faces numerous lawsuits over Reglan and this is not the first time that such a decision has been made over warnings for the medication.
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However, Pfizer points out that 61 decisions in 23 states have ruled against claims that tried to hold a brand-name drugmaker responsible for injuries allegedly caused by a generic version of Reglan.
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Last month, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a highly contentious ruling that Pfizer can be sued by a man who claimed he was injured by a generic version of its Reglan heartburn medicine.
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The medications typically in short supply are generally low cost drugs such as morphine sulfate, zofran, compazine, reglan, ativan and valium.. The shortages often involve injectable drugs which are more technically difficult to manufacture than oral medications.
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In the Alabama case, a consumer took Reglan and developed tardive dyskinesia, which causes incurable and involuntary muscle movements, and accused Wyeth, which is now owned by Pfizer, of failing to warn of the risk of long-term use.
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Levine had overturned an earlier preemption standard, and that its request for input from the solicitor general on another case involving Wyeth Pharmaceuticals drug Reglan in May suggested it was still looking at the issue of preemption in a broad light.
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