F.D.A. to Review Safety of Popular Bone Drugs

The panels and F.D.A. staff members are also expected to conduct a comprehensive safety review of the medical evidence to date, after 16 years of growing use of the drugs, to determine whether they have proved to be safe and effective in use longer than three to five years. The recommendation could affect many of the estimated four million women in the United States who take the drugs, called bisphosphonates. Bisphosphonates inhibit a bone renewal process called resorption, adding bone mass, but possibly causing brittleness as well.

The rest of the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/health/06bone.html

My comments:  Imagine that, unnatural drugs causing unhealthy unnatural side effects.  See my prior articles on this subject:

FDA approves new bone drug which may lead to bone death

See also these articles on natural bone health and osteoporosis:

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