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Stronger Cautions Backed on Bone Drugs for Women
9/9/2011
By Duff Wilson - The New York TimesTwo advisory panels to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday recommended increasing the cautionary language on ... Read More


Testimony Regarding Bisphosphonates
9/9/2011
September 9, 2011 - Public CitizenTestimony to Joint Meeting of the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs and the Drug Safety and Risk Mana ... Read More


FDA Panel To Discuss Safety Of Osteoporosis Drugs
7/8/2011
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will meet in September to discuss the long-term safety of drugs used ... Read More


Fractured: A Special Report on Osteoporosis
6/12/2011
By Susan Ince Osteoporosis medication is supposed to prevent bone breaks. But if it's taken too long, the opposite can happen. What you need about os ... Read More


Long-Term Use of Osteoporosis Medication Associated With Increased Risk of Atypical Fractures
2/22/2011
ScienceDaily (Feb. 22, 2011) — Older women who used bisphosphonates (medications that prevent loss of bone mass) for five years or more were more ... Read More


Use Of Avastin Or Sutent And I.V. Bisphosphonates May Increase Osteonecrosis Of Jaw (ONJ) Risk
12/16/2010
MHRA Warns UK Doctors To Monitor Cancer Patients For ONJ Where There Is Concomitant Use Of These Drugs  (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjury ... Read More


Drug Suits Raise Questions for Doctors, and Juries
11/10/2010
By NATASHA SINGER - New York TimesPublished: November 10, 2010 Judith Graves, a 67-year-old retired investigator for the United States Army, dev ... Read More


FDA Drug Safety Communication: Ongoing safety review of oral bisphosphonates and atypical subtrochanteric femur fractures
11/10/2010
Safety Announcement[03-10-2010] Patients and healthcare professionals may have questions about oral bisphosphonate medications and atypical subtr ... Read More


Bisphosphonates and low-impact femoral fractures: Current evidence on alendronate-fracture risk
10/25/2010
Published By Jennifer P. Schneider, MD, PhD Several recent medical articles have described multiple cases of unusual low-impact subtrochanteric stres ... Read More


Doctor files suit, says bone drug leads to breaks
10/25/2010
Doctor leads effort to restrict the use of bone drug Fosamax. Full Article Here:   http://azstarnet.com/news/science/health-med-fit/article ... Read More


Fosamax Whitewashing Unconvincing
10/25/2010
By Dr Jeffrey Dach MD A recent NEJM article by Dennis Black MD denying a link between Fosamax and spontaneous mid-femur fractures ... Read More


When Drugs Cause Problems They Are Supposed to Prevent
10/16/2010
By Gina KolataThe New York TimesPublished October 16, 2010 n the past month, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded that in some ca ... Read More


F.D.A. Issues Warning on Bone Drugs
10/13/2010
By Duff Wilson via New York Times Updated: The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning on Wednesday linking long-term use of pop ... Read More


FDA: Bisphosphonate Labels Now Warn of Atypical Fracture Risk
10/13/2010
ROCKVILLE, Md -- October 13, 2010 -- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today warned patients and healthcare providers about the possible risk ... Read More


Bad Break: Bone Drugs May Cause Thigh Fractures
9/14/2010
By Ed Silverman Six months after the FDA determined there is no link between bisphosphonates and thigh-bone fractures, a task force says otherwis ... Read More


JBMR Publishes ASBMR Task Force Report on Atypical Femoral Fractures
9/14/2010
Published by The American Society For Bone and Mineral Research Drugs Commonly Prescribed for Osteoporosis Patients are Effective at Reducing Ris ... Read More


Novartis Caught In Aredia, Zometa Ad Fib
6/1/2010
Law360, New York (May 28, 2010) -- Finding that NovartisPharmaceutical Corp. failed to come clean about consumer ads for its controversial A ... Read More


Fosamax Linked to Unusual Femur Fractures
3/19/2010
Originally published on Drugs.com.WEDNESDAY, March 19 -- In the latest research to cast a shadow on the safety of a popular bone-strengtheni ... Read More


Fosamax Femur Fracture Lawsuits
3/8/2010
Fosamax, manufactured by Merck, is a bisphosphonate medication prescribed to treat osteoporosis and bone loss. A medical study in the Journal of Ortho ... Read More


Missoula woman awarded $3.2M in lawsuit against maker of bone-strengthening drug Zometa
10/22/2009
By Tristan Scott - Missoulian.comJurors slapped a Swiss pharmaceutical company with a $3.2 million verdict Wednesday, wrapping up a Missoula woman's l ... Read More


Fosamax, Aredia, Zometa, and Actonel: Causing ‘Dead Jaw Syndrome. ’
11/3/2008
Are you a victim and don’t even know it yet? Fosamax, Aredia, Zometa and Actonel, medications used to protect weakened bones of osteoporosis, multiple ... Read More


Dental Management of Patients Receiving Oral Bisphosphonate Therapy―Expert Panel Recommendations
7/15/2008
Report of the Council on Scientific AffairsAmerican Dental Association July, 2008 (PDF) Report located here. http://www.ada.org/sections/professiona ... Read More


Another Fosamax Side Effect: Low Energy Femur Fractures
6/5/2008
Originally Published on Newsinferno.com Fosamax, a popular drug for treating osteoporosis, has been linked to a rare type of femur fracture.  Th ... Read More


Fosamax, Merck's other drug problem
5/9/2006
With thousands of Vioxx cases already in the courts, the drugmaker faces 15 suits over an osteoporosis drug blamed for rotting the jaw bone.By Aaron S ... Read More


Suit Alleges Merck Negligently Promoted Osteoporosis Drug Fosamax
4/13/2006
Theresa Agovino - The Associated Press Merck & Co., which is already facing a raft of cases over its pain reliever Vioxx, may need to hire additi ... Read More


Jaw Ailment Shows Industry Moves Slowly on Drug Warnings
1/1/2006
After eight operations on patients whose jawbones turned out to be dead, oral surgeon Salvatore Ruggiero began doing some research in February 2001. H ... Read More