Osteoporosis | bisphosphonates FDA

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Should you take bisphosphonates if you have osteoporosis? Maybe yes…maybe no…
FDA: More Research Needed To Evaluate Risk, Benefits Of Bisphosphonates.
Robert Preidt writing in Healthday reported the FDA has disclosed that more studies are required to determine the “Long-term risks and benefits of taking bisphosphonates, a class of drugs widely used for osteoporosis.” Dr. Marcea Whitaker, “The review’s co-author and a medical officer at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research,” said in a statement, “These drugs clearly work. We just don’t know yet the optimum period of time individual patients should be on the drug to both maximize its effectiveness and minimize potential risks.” The piece noted that bisphosphonates have been used in the U.S. “since 1995 to treat people with osteoporosis.”

Comment: No question these drugs are effective. We just need to know more about them.

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