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• Osteoporosis Drugs: Good Medicine or Big Pharma Scam?

  
  Science-Based Medicine — Authority: 128
  A recent story on NPR accused the drug manufacturer Merck of inventing a disease, osteopenia, in order to sell its drug Fosamax. It showed how the definition of what constitutes a disease evolves, and the role that drug companies can play in that evolution. Osteoporosis is a reduction in bone mineral density that ...
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• The creation of a new “disease,” osteopenia, to sell Merck’s Fosamax

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 135
  NPR recently had an amazing story by Alix Spiegel of how pharmaceutical company Merck help turn a research term, osteopenia , into a diagnosis “treated,” often ineffectively, by Merck’s drug Fosamax. The story involves the creation of osteopenia, a supposed subthreshold version of osteoporosis or low bone ...
  4 days ago

• Boning Up On How Merck Marketed Fosamax

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 539
  Did you know that ostopenia is considered by many physicians to be normal thinning of bones as aging occurs? And that in 1992 a group of osteoporisis experts met in Rome and decided arbitrarily who should be treated for ostopenia? Essentially, they created a new category and never imagined the term would become a ...
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• The creation of a blockbuster drug

  
  Healthcare Economist — Authority: 433
  NPR’s All Things Considers documents the creation of the blockbuster drug Fosamax .  Physicians use Fosamax to treat patients with osteoporosis and the less severe osteopenia.  To summarize what took place: Pharmaceutical companies start lobbying to expand Medicare coverage for bone density tests. Medicare ...
  2 weeks ago

• NPR to air explanatory Fosamax piece tonight

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 136
  NPR correspondent Alix Spiegel’s latest piece, an examination of how Merck manufactured a disease (and an epidemic) en route to turning Fosamax into a blockbuster drug, is set to air on All Things Considered tonight. We all know how the story ends, but the real focus is the journey. As Spiegel says, “it’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fosamax Also Used to Treat Slight Bone-Thinning Disorder

  
  Attorney At Law — Authority: 496
  Fosamax, the blockbuster osteoporosis drug linked to increased risks of throat cancer and irregular heartbeat, also may be prescribed to treat women with a less-serious and lesser known bone-thinning disease.Most people have never heard of osteopenia, a condition causing a slight thinning of the bones that naturally ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bisphosphonates Such As Fosamax And Femur Fractures: Some Recent 2009 Medical Journal Articles

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 114
  Atypical Low-Energy Femoral Fractures Associated With Long-Term Use Of Fosamax And Other Bisphosphonates (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) The Journal Watch General Medicine ( JW Gen Med ) published December 15, 2009 included an article, "Atypical Fractures in ...
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• Fosamax Jaw Necrosis Lawsuits in MDL Scheduled for Trial in April and June

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 444
  U.S. District Judge John Keenan, who is presiding over the consolidated federal Fosamax lawsuits involving claims that the osteoporosis drug caused users to suffer debilitating jaw damage, has scheduled trial dates for “bellwether” cases to begin in April and June 2010. The original trial plan called for a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Good Morning

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 539
  Welcome to the working week. We hope your weekend was pleasant, although now, it’s just a memory, isn’t it? And so the time has come for another round of meetings, deadlines and projects. To get you started, here are a few items of interest. So grab a bottle of water or a cup of something stimulating and dig in. ...
  3 weeks ago

• NY Times, AP, Wall St Journal, others: Bone drugs could cut breast cancer risk

  
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker — Authority: 541
  Millions of women might be reducing their risk of breast cancer without knowing it. New studies suggest that certain osteoporosis drugs they are already taking might substantially cut their risk of breast cancer. Roni Caryn Rabin puts skepticism high in the story for The New York Times . “Neither study was a ...
  3 weeks ago

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