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FDA approves first-in-class osteoporosis drug

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BEWARE Romosozumab: See attached photo.

The black box warning notes an increased risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and cardiovascular death in clinical trials. Much more can be found about this drug through google.

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Thank you for posting. I see it is brought to us by the same company which gifted us with Prolia (denosumab).

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Exbury1905 in reply toHeronNS

Indeed. It's all about the money. They don't care if there are a few deaths in clinical trials...

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sweetsusie in reply toHeronNS

Exactly......

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Bemoresquirrel

😳 Lost for words! Many thanks for posting this, another drug to avoid.

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antiP2219 in reply toBemoresquirrel

Yes, thanks!

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MiaLee

An important heads up! Thank you for posting.

We can all stay tuned for the relentless pushing of yet another highly dangerous drug.

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HeronNS

Trying to find a version of this announcement to post on the American bone health site (also on HU) and discovered this is the drug called "Evenity".

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Exbury1905 in reply toHeronNS

It is. Such an innocent sounding name :( which has a dark side of course.

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Exbury1905 in reply toHeronNS

HeronNS, did you find what you were looking for? if you didn't, is there some way I could send you the jpg (or original PDF) privately?

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HeronNS in reply toExbury1905

I did find what i needed, thank you. The American Bone Health site I just stumbled across a few days ago.. Much smaller than this, but just as full of people terrified of Prolia.

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Exbury1905 in reply toHeronNS

That's good. We need to get the word out there!

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sweetsusie

No thanks! But appreciate your post...I like to keep up with this...

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