Osteonecrosis of the Jaw. Zometa,Aredia,and Fosamax are common drugs that have been linked to the loss of jaw bone These drugs are a type of drug known as bisphosphonates. Recently a link has been found between bisphosphonates and a serious bone disease called osteon...

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Fosamax LawsuitsIn a December 13, 2004 press release, doctors at Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJ) announced that they had discovered a link between bisphosphonate drugs and osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ), or literally, death of the jaw bone tissue.Bisphosphonat...

A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease.It is the first large study to affirm wider anti-cancer hopes for Z...

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Days after Novartis received FDA approval to market Zometa (zoledronic acid for injection) as a hypercalcemia treatment, the drug company filed an additional indication for the drug. Novartis was cleared to market Zometa Aug. 20 for the treatment of hypercalcemia, a p...

Swiss pharmaceutical major Novartis' bisphosphonate Zometa (zoledronic acid), already approved and marketed in over 60 countries including the USA for the prevention of skeletal-related events in patients with advanced malignancies involving bone, may also delay...

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M2 PRESSWIRE-23 October 2001-NOVARTIS: FDA grants priority review for Zometa in the treatment of a serious cancer complication (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23102001 Basel -- Novartis announced today that Zometa (zoledronic acid) has been designa...

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. has asked the FDA to market Zometa in the treatment of bone complications ... ...

Prostate cancer is most likely to metastasize to the bone. Approximately 50% to 70% of prostate cancer patients develop skeletal metastases and associated bone pain (Buckwalter & Brandser, 1997). Most men with advanced disease who die of prostate cancer have ...

A drug used to treat osteoporosis lowered the risk of breast cancer recurrence in premenopausal women with early breast cancer. ...

You may have seen the term osteonecrosis in recent newspaper stories about the association between high doses of intravenous osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates and a rare form of bone death in the jaw. The reports may seem alarming, but the problem rarely affec...

There's no proof that widely used bisphosphonate drugs are more effective than other treatments at preventing fractures in people with osteoporosis, says a U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report published online Monday in the journal Annals of Int...