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2. Alendronic acid - Wikipedia

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   Alendronic acid, sold under the brand name Fosamax among others, is a bisphosphonate medication used to treat osteoporosis and Paget's disease of bone. [4] It is taken by mouth. [ 4 ] Use is often recommended together with vitamin D , calcium supplementation , and lifestyle changes.

3. 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.

4. Alendronic acid/colecalciferol - Wikipedia

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   Alendronic acid/colecalciferol, sold under the brand name Fosamax Plus D among others, is a medication for the treatment of osteoporosis in men or in postmenopausal women. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 6 ] Alendronic acid/colecalciferol was approved for use in the United States and in the European Union in 2005.

5. Merck Wins FOSAMAX® (alendronate sodium) Federal ... - AOL

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   The safety and effectiveness of FOSAMAX for the treatment of osteoporosis are based on clinical data of 4 years' duration. ... Today's Merck is a global healthcare leader working to help the world ...

6. FDA warns Boniva, Fosamax and other osteoporosis drugs ... - AOL

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   Osteoporosis drugs taken to prevent bone fracture may cause rare, but critical, fractures of their own, the Food and Drug Administration announced today in a warning to consumers. The agency also ...

7. Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw - Wikipedia

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   Symptoms: Exposed bone after extraction, pain: Complications: Osteomyelitis of the jaw: Usual onset: After dental extractions: Duration: Variable: Types: Stage 1-Stage 3: Causes: Medications related to cancer therapy, and osteoporosis in combination with dental surgery: Risk factors: Duration of anti-resorptive or anti-angiogenic drugs ...

8. Osteoporosis - Wikipedia

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   Certain medications like alendronate, etidronate, risedronate, raloxifene, and strontium ranelate can help to prevent osteoporotic fragility fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. [184] Tentative evidence suggests that Chinese herbal medicines may have potential benefits on bone mineral density.

9. ‘AGT’ alum Jackie Evancho says anorexia led to osteoporosis ...

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   The "America's Got Talent" alum talked about her eating disorder and the 2021 car accident that broke her back and led to her osteoporosis diagnosis.