Bone drugs’ adverse effect found to be very rare
Remember those scary reports of spontaneous thighbone fractures that occurred in some women who were taking fracture-prevention drugs like Fosamax? The bone breaks for no apparent reason. (In one...
View ArticleDrugs for bone loss
Concern over the lack of good information about this widely prescribed bone drug Fosamax and it multiple knockoffs (Actonel, Boniva, Didronel, Reclast, Aredia) has galvanized several research teams...
View ArticleWarning on bone drugs: stop after 5 years
First, a trip down memory lane on the use of bone drugs for the prevention of hip fractures. It is now 16 years since Merck’s widely prescribed Fosamax went on the market. In time, it was prescribed...
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