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2. Ibandronic acid - Wikipedia

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   Ibandronic acid is a bisphosphonate medication used in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and metastasis-associated skeletal fractures in people with cancer. [4] It may also be used to treat hypercalcemia (elevated blood calcium levels). It is typically formulated as its sodium salt ibandronate sodium. [medical citation needed]

3. Romosozumab - Wikipedia

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   Romosozumab is used for osteoporosis to decrease the risk of fractures. [10] Two trials found that it reduced the rate of vertebral fracture. In one, there was a 73% lower risk of vertebral fracture after one year, and the benefit was maintained after a second year of taking denosumab.

4. Bisphosphonate - Wikipedia

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   Bisphosphonates are used to treat osteoporosis, osteitis deformans (Paget's disease of the bone), bone metastasis (with or without hypercalcemia), multiple myeloma, and other conditions involving fragile, breakable bone. In osteoporosis and Paget's, the most popular first-line bisphosphonate drugs are alendronate and risedronate.

5. Alendronic acid - Wikipedia

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   Alendronic acid was first described in 1978 and approved for medical use in the United States in 1995. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] It is available as a generic medication . In 2022, it was the 103rd most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 6 million prescriptions.

6. First osteoporosis drug of its kind for more than a decade ...

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   The drug is one of only two treatments that help to promote bone formation, and the first to reduce bone loss at the same time. First osteoporosis drug of its kind for more than a decade approved ...

7. List of largest selling pharmaceutical products - Wikipedia

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   Drug Main indication Trade name 2018 sales (million USD) 2017 sales (million USD) 1 adalimumab: rheumatoid arthritis: Humira 19 936 18427 3 apixaban: anticoagulant: Eliquis 9872 7395 4 lenalidomide: multiple myeloma: Revlimid 9685 8187 5 nivolumab: oncology: Opdivo 7570 5763 6 pembrolizumab: oncology: Keytruda 7171 3809 7 etanercept: rheumatoid ...