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• 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: 436
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Fosamax Fracture Lawsuit Remanded by MDL Judge

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 436
  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 ...
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• Preemption Is Alive And Well In Michigan

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 545
  Three Michigan women blame a pair of Novartis drugs - Aredia and Zometa - for causing their osteonecrosis, which is the death of jaw-bone tissue. But a federal appeals court has ruled they can’t proceed with their lawsuits because Michigan law bars most product liability claims, Mealey’s Emerging Drugs & ...
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• Jaw Damage Lawsuit Against Fosamax Dismissed Weeks Before Trial

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 436
  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 ...
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• Merck Wins Dismissal Of Second Fosamax Trial

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 545
  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 ...
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