Rottenstein Law Group Commissions, Publishes Infographic to Educate Public About Fosamax History, Dangers
Fosamax Femur Fracture
New York, NY (PRWEB) September 26, 2011
The Rottenstein Law Group, which represents clients with claims of harm resulting from use of the drug Fosamax, has commissioned and published an infographic to educate the public about the history and dangers of the medication.
The infographic—viewable at http://www.fosamaxfemurfracturelawsuit.com/fosamax-information/ —provides very easy-to-read facts about what Fosamax is prescribed for, the most common adverse side effects of the medication, other serious side effects, the conclusions of two major studies of the drug, and a timeline of significant events in the product’s history.
Despite being the most popular osteoporosis treatment medication on the market, Fosamax has been linked to several serious side effects. In 2004, researchers found a causal connection between Fosamax and osteonecrosis of the jaw, a condition where the jawbone dies due to a lack of blood supply, as reported in the Journal of Rheumatology, among other places. More recently, people have suffered low-impact femur fractures after falling from standing height or less, as reported in Journal of Orthopedic Trauma and elsewhere. Evidence is building that taking Fosamax or similar medications for the treatment of osteoporosis causes a dramatic increase in risk of this particular kind of rare fracture to the thigh bone.
The Rottenstein Law Group urges anyone whose friend or relative has been prescribed Fosamax or another osteoporosis drug to reach out to that person and recommend that he or she consult a physician immediately and then speak to a qualified personal injury lawyer. The Rottenstein Law Group maintains a Fosamax Femur Fracture Lawsuit Information Center at http://www.fosamaxfemurfracturelawsuit.com. The site has features that allow for easy sharing, including links for automatic posting on Facebook and Twitter, specifically to enable visitors to spread the word about the dangers of Fosamax.
About THE ROTTENSTEIN LAW GROUP
The Rottenstein Law Group is a New York-based law firm that represents clients in mass tort actions. The firm was founded by Rochelle Rottenstein, who has more than two decades of experience as a lawyer, to represent clients in consumer product injury, mass tort, and class action lawsuits in a compassionate manner. http://www.rotlaw.com
Use of proton pump inhibitors such as Prilosec, Nexium, Protonix, Aciphex and others were associated with a 320% increase in C. diff enterocolitis after just 30 days of treatment. PPIs block the absorption of calcium, magnesium, iron and B12 and increase the risk for osteoporosis, senile dementia, and cardiac rhythm disturbances as well. Video Rating: 0 / 5
This video describes the recent guidelines for risk of hip fracture. It goes beyond the bone mineral density and looks at other risk factors.
Dr. Singer and patient Dell explains how postmenopausal women are at a higher risk for osteoporosis than the average person. Believing that osteoporosis is under-recognized through-out America, Dr. Singer thoroughly advocate for women’s health to get more women to seek bone density examinations in order to get treated at its early stages, thus preventing women from bones damage. Dell, a strong willed patient of Dr. Singer, iterates the need for postmenopausal women to get a bone density checkup because she doesn’t want others to go what she went through. She is receiving therapy and the best piece of advice she could give from her experience is to listen to your doctor. With the treatment Dell feels a bit of recovery but wishes she sought treatment in its earlier stages. For more information contact ua at www.goodnewsbroadcast.com Video Rating: 0 / 5
Osteoporosis is what is called the “silent disease,” or America’s infrastructure problem. It is the thinning on the bones and loss of bone density. Each year, osteoporosis causes 1.5 million bone fractures. We commonly think that osteoporosis affects women, but men can be affected too. Video Rating: 0 / 5
Swiss researchers recently concluded that Avandia, a type 2 diabetes drug, nearly doubles the chances of osteoporosis and bone fracture among patients who take the drug and is increased for patients taking the drug for more than a year. The results of the study come on heels of controversy surrounding the drug?s link to increased heart disease and various studies warning of potential risks related to bone degradation.
In 1999, Avandia became available from manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline and was given to nearly 3.5 million Americans suffer from the condition. Avandia was once considered one of the most popular treatments until results of several clinical trials reported in the news in 2007 determined a strong connection of the drug to cardiomyopathy and cardiovascular disease. One study, published by the Cleveland Clinic, found a 43 percent increase for patients developing these various heart diseases. Dr. Of the thousands of myocardial infacractions that have occurred over the last few years, nearly 83,000 may have been preventable, according to John Buse, a diabetes expert.
It wasn’t until the Swiss research that conclusive evidence was reported on the serious risk of osteoporosis link. The Swiss study determined patients on Avandia and Actos, which is also part of the Avandia class of drugs known as thiazolidinediones, doubled and, in some cases, tripled the ?odds of non-spine fractures? among patients, according to news reports. For patients who took the drug for 12 to 18 months, this risk increased, and for those on the drug longer than two years were found to be at the highest risk of bone fracture and osteoporosis.
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Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by loss of bone density and leads to abnormally porous bones, thus increasing the fragility of bones and an increase of fractures and breaks. A bone diseased with osteoporosis will have a density similar to that of a sponge, whereas healthy bones have a brick-consistent density level. Calcium combined with collagen and protein provide strength to bones. Avandia was found to inhibit the development of osteoclasts and osteoblasts, which are cells that induce the redevelopment of healthy bone over time. Nearly 18 million U.S. citizens are at risk for osteoporosis. While taking Avandia, that risk has been suggested to only increase.
The Swiss researchers used medical records of over 1,000 diabetic patients who were diagnosed with bone fractures between the years of 1994 and 2005. The medical records included diagnosis of fractures for these patients from British physicians, and the research was compared to a control group of diabetics that did were not diagnosed with bone fractures during that time. Avandia, once an extremely popular form of type 2 diabetes treatment, now is rapidly declining in popularity and in sales because of surfacing side effects. Most recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted a routine inspection that brought about information of results being withheld on the drug, thus the FDA issued manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline a warning letter.
However, the risk of osteoporosis and Avandia consumption has not be recognized by the FDA. In fact, the FDA has only responded to the controversial heart disease link by placing a black box warning on Avandia prescriptions, which some health experts consider to be a mild slap on the wrist considering the severe safety issues associated with the drug and many of these individuals are advocating removal of the drug from the market. The black box warning is the strongest label given by the FDA and warns of significant risk and the potential for life-threatening risks associated with taking a drug.
Individuals who have taken Avandia and who were adversely affected by the side effects of osteoporosis and bone fracture should speak with a pharmaceutical attorney about developing Avandia litigation to potentially receive monetary compensation for the medical bills incurred at the cost of the Avandia side effects.
LegalView.com, the number one resource for everything legal on the Web, has more information on Avandia at http://avandia.legalview.com, as well as other issues Americans are inflicted with, such as brain injury accidents or pharmaceutical recalls such as the Chantix risks, http://chantix.legalview.com/.
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Osteoporosis is a disease of bone that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of proteins in bone is altered. Osteoporosis is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) in women as a bone mineral density 2.5 standard deviations below peak bone mass (20-year-old healthy female average) as measured by DXA; the term “established osteoporosis” includes the presence of a fragility fracture.[1] Osteoporosis is most common in women after menopause, when it is called postmenopausal osteoporosis, but may also develop in men, and may occur in anyone in the presence of particular hormonal disorders and other chronic diseases or as a result of medications, specifically glucocorticoids, when the disease is called steroid- or glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (SIOP or GIOP). Given its influence in the risk of fragility fracture, osteoporosis may significantly affect life expectancy and quality of life. Osteoporosis can be prevented with lifestyle changes and sometimes medication; in people with osteoporosis, treatment may involve both. Lifestyle change includes exercise and preventing falls; medication includes calcium, vitamin D, bisphosphonates and several others. Fall-prevention advice includes exercise to tone deambulatory muscles, proprioception-improvement exercises; equilibrium therapies may be included. Exercise with its anabolic effect, may at the …
Out of the wide variety of bone related diseases prevalent in the recent time, osteoporosis is one of the most common ones. The most central reason for the occurrence of this disease is the decrease in the overall bone density in the bones. The worst part about this disease is that the lessening of the bone density which subsequently leads to it is a very gradual process and takes many years to set in without any evident signs of this lessening .Thus osteoporosis is often deemed to be a silent killer and is the reason why people shudder when they hear about the disease. This disease can only be confirmed in patients when the symptoms are reaching a high level. These may include loss in the height of the body, increase in the chipping and the number of bone fractures, severe and prolonged joint pains and even hunchback.
There are certain risk factors associated with osteoporosis, which can aggravate or increase the chances of this disease. Keeping race as a parameter, there is a greater danger to whites as well as people from the Asian origin to suffer from this disease than darker races such as blacks and browns. Also, there is a greater sighting of this disease in older people than youngsters, teenagers and infants. It has been seen that osteoporosis has a close connection to estrogen as well as menopause once the age of thirty five and above sets in ladies. Osteoporosis is also a disease which is known to affect people with similar bone structure most often. Thus if anyone in your family has a history of this disease, it is important that you should be careful and take necessary precautions against it. Apart from these, a wide variety of lifestyle related reasons can also be contributed to becoming a probable cause of osteoporosis. These include over consumption of alcohol and red meat, lack of physical activities and sports, obesity, low calcium levels in blood and bones, excessive consumption of caffeine and smoking and many more are yet to be realized. Many people also tend to connect incorrect postures while sitting ,standing, sleeping and driving.
As far as the detection of osteoporosis is concerned, there are a wide variety of tests conducted today by doctors and medical experts to detect and confirm the disease. Two of the most commonly used methods include Dual-energy X-ray, Absorptiometry as well as Ultrasound Densitometry.
Any treatment or therapy to cure osteoporosis is based on three basic objectives – controlling the pain in patients, reduce the chances of subsequent fractures and bone damage and finally and most importantly to increase the overall bone density. Since osteoporosis can be accounted to a lot of different causes, the therapy to cure it has to be of a multi-dimensional nature. This is the reason why apart from bone specialists, the expert committee undertaking the therapy also involves experts from medical departments such as obstetric and gynecology.
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www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org – www.emfnews.org It is said that life begins at 40! Well, it could be true since this is the age when most people already reach their established life. But this is also the age when degenerative health problems begin to appear. Osteoporosis is one of them. Like it or not, people at 40 starts to get the risk of osteoporosis. Without huge concern on it, it could become huge problem when you get older. There are many factors affecting the risk of osteoporosis and there are tons of articles already talk about it. What this article wants to reveal is the correlation between cellphone radiation and osteoporosis. Off course we already well informed about long lasting controversy of cellphone radiation. Despite of its multipurpose benefits, cellphone emitted electromagnetic radiation that could give bad effects to our body. However, most of us may not very familiar how cell phone radiation could increase the risks of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is among negative symptom when the bones could no longer maintain its density making it unable to support our body. It is believed that sufficient calcium intake could lower the risk of osteoporosis. However, the handheld device we couldn’t live without could be one more factor affecting osteoporosis risk. A new research conducted in Argentina revealed that cell phone electromagnetic radiation could reduce bone density. The research conducted on a group of people whose been asked to keep cell …
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For episode 251, Tinsley talks about a new study in the connection with celiac disease and osteoporosis and shares some of her own anecdotal evidence. Video Rating: 0 / 5
The McCue CUBAClinical densitometer the world’s first gel based… The McCue CUBAClinical densitometer the world’s first gel based and portable ultrasound bone density scanner was developed in the early 1980’s from technology invented at Sheffield University (UK) by Dr. Christian Langton. A number of published prospective fracture studies demonstrate how by measuring the calcaneal bone within the CUBAClinical and individuals risk of fracture can be determined. In 2004 a Landmark study was published in the Lancet which concluded that “Quantitative calcaneum ultrasound predicts total and hip fracture risk in men and women in a continuous relation.” The population ages ranged from 42-82 years and comprised of a study population of 14 824 men and women. Reference – Lancet 2004; 363: 197–202 Unlike the large DEXA technology which is invariably hospital based and uses ionizing radiation, the CUBAClinical uses safe ultrasound waves and being portable is able to be transported by a single technician. The cost of DEXA osteoporosis assessments in the UK vary in price between £60 and £150+ whereas risk assessments with ultrasound vary between £40 and £20. Organizations in the UK that provide low cost assessment to individuals at their place of work include the Osteoporosis Assessment Service Ltd (www.oas-ltd.co.uk) and the Mobile Screening Service (www.mssuk.org). The UK has no national screening program and therefore there is a mixed picture of access to NHS assessments across the … Video Rating: 5 / 5
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