Fosamax (drug)

Dozens of brand-name prescription drugs are losing their patent protection, allowing generic versions to enter the market and consumers to save 30 to 80 percent on those medications, said David Belian, director of media relations for the Generic...

The best way to reduce risk for osteoporosis — a thinning and weakening of the bones — seems to be the subject of ongoing debate. This month brought a fresh round of questions after a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine...

From defective cars to dangerous drugs to hazardous roadways, the firm has represented thousands of clients in individual suits, class actions and mass torts over the past four decades. Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis, Inc. specializes in...

The law aims to protect men and women equally. Yet some types of cases nearly beg for female representation-and don't get it. That's why Karen Barth Menzies, partner at Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro & Davis, has devoted her career to taking on the...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Doctors were mostly hoping to prevent complications and relapses when they gave young women a medicine to keep their bones strong during breast cancer treatment. Seven years later, they found it did more than that: The bone drug...

Q: I published the original article on cranberry juice cocktail and urinary tract infections (Journal of Urology, May 1984). We also demonstrated in several nursing home studies that cranberry juice cocktail, not the plain juice, works best. Please...

Q: I had a plantar wart on my heel. The dermatologist had her nurse scrape off the top of it and then painted it with beetle juice. The beetle juice destroyed the wart, but a month later I still have a painful heel. It feels like I'm walking on a thorn....

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new drug for osteoporosis. Amgen's Prolia (denosumab) prevents fractures in postmenopausal women at a rate similar to the most popular drugs on the market — bisphosphonates such as Fosamax,...

Q: Which osteoporosis drug is the safest? I have been told to take Evista, but am hesitant because of the risk of stroke. A: There are a number of drugs available to treat or prevent osteoporosis. There is no single best (or safest) drug. The choice...

The strategy that has made the pharmaceutical industry one of the wealthiest and most powerful on Earth is finally starting to betray it. Beginning in just a few weeks, and continuing over the next several years, some of the biggest-selling and most...