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A West Liberty, Iowa, doctor is urging members of his hometown to follow a good diet and do weight-bearing exercise in lieu of taking medications to remedy ailments such as low bone density. Dr. Carl Gillman with West Liberty Chiropractic Center posed his argument in a recent issue of the West Liberty Index.
It seemed suspicious to the team of dentists at the University of Southern California (USC), the fact that so many patients treated at the university dental clinic were being diagnosed with osteonecrosis of the jaw, or ONJ. So dentists there pored through the records of more than 13,000 patients and found that 208 of them had been taking the osteoporosis drug Fosamax, and of those 208, four percent had ONJ.
Back in January we explained how many pharmaceutical companies, following a Hollywood business model, have started to experience an erosion of their profits as patents expire on their “blockbuster” drugs. Aggressive, multi-billion-dollar marketing campaigns lead to multi-billion-dollar drug sales, but when patents expire, so do profits.
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