Reports Of Drug Side Effects Causing Many Patients With Osteoporosis To Avoid Treatment.

eports of osteoporosis medications “causing jawbones to rot and thighbones to snap in two have shaken many osteoporosis patients so much that they say they would rather take their chances with the disease.” The piece contained quotes from Endocrine Society members. Clifford J. Rosen, MD, of Tufts University, said, “You only need to treat 50 people to prevent a fracture, but you need to treat 40,000 to see an atypical fracture.” Paul D. Miller, of the Colorado Center for Bone Research, said, “The fear factor is huge” when it comes to osteoporosis drug. Steven T. Harris, MD, of the University of California-San Francisco, said he has the osteoporosis drug “discussion all day every day with my patients.” Ethel S. Siris, MD, of Columbia University, “said...that with the drugs off patent, there is no longer an aggressive advertising push to make people aware of them.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/health/osteoporosis-drugs-bones.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0