Merck is FINALLY headed to court to face the music that their Fosamax drug led to femur fractures

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/court-revives-more-than-500-lawsuits-over-fosamax-femur-fracture-risk-2024-09-20/

I know I know….Reuters…….but believe it or not, this info is not being widely shared!!! So you get the news where you can. Even if it is mainstream paid for sources.

In the ultimate irony, Merck’s drug Fosamax, a drug that hit the market in 2009 to, get this “SLOW/REVERSE OSTEOPOROSIS AND PREVENT BONE FRACTURES”, has come under fire for causing FEMUR FRACTURES. Seriously, you cannot make this up. The femur is your largest and most dense bone in the body. A femur fracture is a horrible injury that is very time consuming to heal, usually requiring surgery to fix it. It is one of our most weight bearing bones in the body. Why did that bone deteriorate so severely while on this drug? (Do we need more proof that Fosamax did not do what it was intended to do? And perhaps did the opposite?)

Merck added a warning to their labeling in 2011 stating that fractures “could” occur while taking their magic anti bone breaking drug. The lawsuits began to roll in, and the corrupt district court judges of course protected their big pharma friends and tossed the case. The original court judge is now deceased. After 13 years and numerous trips to district court, it was finally decided that the 500 lawsuits filed by patients who experienced femur fractures while on Fosamax do indeed deserve their day in court.

Don’t forget that Merck is also the company that invented the bone density scan, plopped those scanners into every medical office they could, so that medical offices would scan everyone (and bill your insurance of course) to create the increased diagnosis of “mild osteoporosis” to make sure that Fosamax made billions.

They forgot to tell people that exercise, such as going for walks, taking calcium, getting plenty of sunshine and vitamin D, and light resistance weight training were more effective at treating bone loss than Fosamax ever was. And a hell of a lot cheaper.