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Fosamax femur fractures : Fosamax lawsuits

By: Susan Ardizzoni | 2010-10-02 | Women's Health
Fosamax is a prescription drug that is used to treat patients who have osteoporosis. Fosamax is manufactured by Merck. This osteoporotic drug has been associated with a number of adverse effects including rare Fosamax femur fractures. The FDA is currently carrying out an investigation to determine whether there is a link between Fosamax and rare femur fractures. read more

Fosamax Femur Fractures : Fosamax Lawsuits

By: Susan Ardizzoni | 2010-10-02 | Health & Fitness
Fosamax is a prescription drug that is used to treat patients who have osteoporosis. Fosamax is manufactured by Merck. This osteoporotic drug has been associated with a number of adverse effects including rare Fosamax femur fractures. The FDA is currently carrying out an investigation to determine whether there is a link between Fosamax and rare femur fractures. read more

Fosamax Linked To Femur Fractures

By: Burns Evans | 2011-08-05 | Business
Fosamax is a drug that is extensively used by osteoporosis patients. For the past few years, there have been many allegations against the drug for its side effects. read more

New Study Sheds Light on Bone Fractures and Fosamax

By: Ronald K. Redman | 2011-11-30 | Personal injury
The New England Journal of Medicine has recently published a study which showed that the safety in the long term use of bisphosphonate drugs, like Fosamax, for osteoporosis treatment may be in question. read more

Fractures of the Femoral Neck

By: Jonathan Blood-Smyth | 2010-04-02 | Health & Fitness
Femoral neck fractures are a common feature of particular populations of people with specific problems. Fractures of the neck of the femur are common in post-menopausal women and are secondary to a decrease in bone density. read more

New York Attorney Now Accepting Fosamax-related Femur Fracture Cases

By: Donald Hood | 2011-01-04 | Business
(1888PressRelease) The Commack, New York law firm of Rudolph F.X. Migliore, P.C. is accepting cases on behalf of women and men who took the prescription medication Fosamax and later suffered a hip/thigh fracture. read more

Atypical Fractures, a Possible Fosamax Side Effect

By: Ronald K. Redman | 2011-11-22 | Health and safety
To date there has been a number of studies have shown that Fosamax, which is a drug created to treat osteoporosis, can possibly cause some long term side effects. read more

consumerinjurylawyers : Fosamax : Fosamax

By: Susan Ardizzoni | 2010-10-13 | Acne
Fosamax is a prescription drug used to treat osteoporotic patients. Fosamax is manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Merck. This drug has been linked to an unusual low trauma femur fracture and necrosis of the jaw (ONJ). Studies continue in universities to provide further information on fosamax injuries. read more

Fosamax Problems

By: Ronald K. Redman | 2011-11-03 | Medicine
Alendronate sodium is the generic name of the biphosphonate drug called Fosamax, which strengthens the bones by improving bone mineral density. Yet this drug is now sharing the limelight with Fosamax Plus D because of increasing reports of atypical type of femoral fracture from its long-term customers. read more

Fosamax Safety Tips: Fosamax Overdose

By: Elaine Turner | 2011-07-02 | Personal injury
Alendronate sodium is the generic name of the biphosphonate drug, Fosamax, which strengthens the bones by improving bone mineral density. Yet this drug is now sharing the limelight with Fosamax Plus D because of increasing reports of atypical type of femoral fracture from its long-term customers. The verdict of the arbitrator is almost at arm’s length now that there has been a development in the read more

Researcher Verifies Increased Risk Of Atypical Femur Fractures With Bisphosphonates Like Fosamax, Reclast

By: Fosamax Attorneys | 2011-06-02 | Women's Health
A researcher with financial ties to a company that hopes to commercialize a bisphosphonate product (and to which he holds the patent) has confirmed that bisphosphonates like Fosamax and Reclast increase the risk of an atypical femur fracture. read more

Fosamax Now has New FDA Warning

By: Ronald K. Redman | 2011-12-13 | Health and safety
The FDA issued a safety announcement last 2010 with regards to “the risk of atypical fractures of the thigh, known as subtrochanteric and diaphyseal femur fractures, in patients who take bisphosphonates for osteoporosis,” warning patients to be alert of an “dull or aching pain” in their hip or thigh and advising healthcare professionals to be alert to the increased risk of uncommon femoral read more

Fosamax and Some Information for Its Patients

By: Ronald K. Redman | 2011-11-18 | Medicine
The potentially dangerous, long-term side effects of the biphosphonate Fosamax have been published in many studies. Things have been taking a different turn as the drug is supposed to help in the treatment of osteoporosis. Based on these studies, women who are 68 or older and have taken Fosamax for over five years have about a three-percent chance of suffering from a femoral shaft fracture than th read more

Fosamax Femur Fracture Lawyers Encouraged by Results of New Study

By: Bryan Sartin | 2011-04-07 | Health and safety
A new study linking bisphosphonates and Fosamax femur fracture injuries could strengthen the cases being made by lawyers that the osteoporosis drug causes people to experience abnormal leg breaks. read more

Can Non-Americans File Fosamax Femur Fracture Lawsuits?

By: Ronald K. Redman | 2011-03-31 | Diseases and Conditions
Merck sells Fosamax all over the world. Between 1999 and 2009 it made $23.8 billion in worldwide Fosamax sales. Fosamax, however, causes several awful side effects, the two main ones being osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) and atypical low-impact femur fractures. read more