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• Boning Up On How Merck Marketed Fosamax

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 547
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• The creation of a blockbuster drug

  
  Healthcare Economist — Authority: 427
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• NPR to air explanatory Fosamax piece tonight

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 135
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Fosamax Also Used to Treat Slight Bone-Thinning Disorder

  
  Attorney At Law — Authority: 444
  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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Fosamax Jaw Necrosis Lawsuits in MDL Scheduled for Trial in April and June

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 438
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Good Morning

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 547
  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. ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker — Authority: 532
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• November 2009: Osteonecrosis Of The Jaw (ONJ) And Fosamax: Four Recent Medical Journal Articles

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 114
  This List Of Abstracts Provides Various Perspectives About ONJ, A  Jaw Bone Side Effect Caused By Bisphosphonates (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) In this brief article we provide a quick round-up of medical journal articles published in November 2009 that address ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fosamax Fracture Lawsuit Remanded by MDL Judge

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 438
  The judge who is presiding over the consolidated federal Fosamax litigation , which involves claims that Merck & Co. failed to warn that their osteoporosis drug may increase the risk of jaw necrosis, has ordered that one lawsuit filed by a plaintiff who alleges that she suffered hip and femur fractures from ...
  4 weeks ago

• Jaw Damage Lawsuit Against Fosamax Dismissed Weeks Before Trial

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 438
  A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit over Fosamax , saying that the plaintiff will be unable to establish at trial that the osteoporosis drug caused her to suffer debilitating jaw damage. The case had been scheduled for trial to begin on January 12, in what was to be the second of three bellwether trials in ...
  5 weeks ago

• Merck Wins Dismissal Of Second Fosamax Trial

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 547
  This was to have been the second bellwether case against the drugmaker, which has been accused in some 1,000 lawsuits of failing to warn docs and patients its Fosamax osteoporosis med may cause osteonecrosis, or the painful death of jawbone tissue. In his opinion , US District Judge John Keenan wrote that experts ...
  5 weeks ago

• Check That - Lets Look At Something Else (Vioxx and Fosamax)

  
  Drug and Device Law — Authority: 595
  Yesterday we mentioned that Merck had won summary judgment in a consumer protection-type suit brought by the Texas Attorney General concerning Vioxx. We hoped for an "interesting opinion." Well, check that. Weve now seen the order - and thats all there is (at least for now) - an order. Here it is , but it doesnt ...
  5 weeks ago

• What Does “FDA Approved” Really Mean?

  
  Menopause - The Blog — Authority: 103
  Women use products every day that are regulated by the FDA including cosmetics, medicines and  hormones. But does an “FDA Approved” claim mean that it’s safe and effective?  In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine , “Lost in Translation- FDA Drug Information That Never Reaches ...
  5 weeks ago

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