If you’re one of the 8 million American women with osteoporosis, your doctor has probably talked to you about treatment options to slow the disease’s progression and keep your bones in tip-top shape.

A new study says more people taking Fosamax (alendronate) might be at risk for developing major problems with their jaws than scientists believed before, according to findings published in the latest ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My primary care doctor has prescribed the medication Evenity for my osteoporosis. I have been on Fosamax for about three years, but my recent bone density scan went down slightly in ...

Two recent reports have linked the osteoporosis drug alendronate (Fosamax) with rare but serious side effects. In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine published Jan. 1, a Food and Drug ...

In the United States, the safety of prescription drugs is overseen along two parallel pathways. Federal regulation is provided by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which works to ensure the ...

A confidential agreement has been reached in a lawsuit filed against Merck, maker of the osteoporosis drug Fosamax, by a woman who claimed she suffered from Fosamax-related damages to her jaw. The ...

Merck & Co., already battered by Vioxx lawsuits, is preparing for a blizzard of litigation from patients claiming they were harmed by Fosamax, the company's hot-selling osteoporosis drug. The ...

SEATTLE—Women who have used Fosamax are nearly twice as likely to develop the most common kind of chronically irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation) than are those who have never used it, according ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A jury on Friday awarded $8 million in compensatory damages to a Florida woman who sued Merck & Co, alleging the company's osteoporosis drug Fosamax damaged her jaw, nine months ...

Hundreds of patients say Merck failed to warn of possible Fosamax danger. Like millions of Americans suffering from bone loss, Lorice Cortez embraced the prescription drug Fosamax with the hope of ...

NEW YORK Fosamax is the most widely used treatment for osteoporosis, racking up $3 billion in sales last year alone. The drug works by slowing erosion of the bone, and it's proven to reduce the chance ...