NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge refused on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Merck & Co Inc's osteoporosis drug Fosamax caused jaw damage to an Indiana woman during the nearly ...

The retrial of the Fosamax/osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) trial that ended in a mistrial last year got under way June 7 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit ...

If you’re one of the 8 million American women with osteoporosis, your doctor has probably talked to you about treatment options to slow the disease’s progression and keep your bones in tip-top shape.

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Fosamax users who believe their jaws were damaged by the osteoporosis drug on Friday asked a federal judge to order Merck & Co. to provide a dental monitoring program for the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawsuit alleging that Merck & Co's osteoporosis drug Fosamax caused jaw damage ended in a mistrial on Friday. U.S. District Judge John Keenan declared the mistrial two days ...

A troubling jaw disease that may be related to the use of some of the most commonly used osteoporosis medications has been the subject of many news stories and law firm commercials lately. The disease ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I take Fosamax for osteoporosis. I need to have a tooth extracted, but I heard that my jaw could die if I do this. Is that true? The risk of bone death (osteonecrosis) from tooth ...

Death of bone due to infections being traced to increase in drugs to fight osteoporosis, cancer. Geneva Grimpo, right, 85, talks with oral surgeon Dr. Brett Ferguson, who’s treating her for ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: I take Fosamax for osteoporosis. I need to have a tooth extracted, but I heard that my jaw could die if I do this. Is that true? Answer (from Dr. Christopher Viozzi, a specialist in ...

Whitehouse Station-based Merck & Co. notched another victory yesterday in its marathon Fosamax fight, but the drug-maker still has literally thousands of cases to go. Whitehouse Station-based Merck & ...