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Civil Litigation

Nov. 1, 2024

Pfizer faces lawsuit over withdrawn sickle cell drug

The plaintiff's complaint, which claims the drug complicated his disease, comes nearly a month after Pfizer pulled the drug from shelves.

A sickle cell patient sued Global Blood Therapeutics Inc. a biopharmaceutical company and subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., in San Francisco County over claims that a now defunct drug, Oxbryta, complicated his disease and caused "fatal events" in some users.

The complaint, filed by attorneys from Bradley/Grombacher LLP and Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz PLLC on Oct. 23, comes nearly a month after Pfizer pulled the drug from shelves after it said, "data showed an i...

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