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Fosamax Linked to Unusual Femur Fractures
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January issued an alert to physicians about the possibility of severe bone pain occurring as a result of bisphosphonate therapy. Additionally, last year Fosamax was also implicated in some cases of atrial fibrillation -- a serious type of irregular heartbeat -- though the FDA hasn't found evidence to support this association.
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Last updated 3/19/2008
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SOURCES: Joseph Lane, M.D., professor of orthopaedic surgery, and chief, metabolic bone diseases, Weill Cornell Medical College Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City; Ron Rogers, spokesperson, Merck, Whitehouse Station, N.J.; Loren Wissner Greene, M.D., endocrinologist, clinical associate professor of medicine and co-director of the osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease program, New York University School of Medicine and Medical Center; March 20, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine
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