Visit us online: consumerinjurylawyers.com Call today for a Free and Confidential case evaluation: 1.877.779.1414 Millions of men and women in this country suffer from osteoporosis which places them at a greater risk of experiencing fractures. Fosamax was touted as the magic pill that would treat and even prevent osteoporosis and osteopenia. Indeed, Merck, the manufacturer of Fosamax, spent billions of dollars marketing this drug to doctors and even directly to consumers. Unfortunately, as medical studies continue to reveal, long term use of Fosamax appears to cause the exact consequence the drug was supposed to prevent—certain types of fractures. More and more Fosamax users are coming forward, reporting low-energy femur fractures. The femur is one of the strongest bones in the body and usually only breaks after a serious trauma—such as being hit by a car. Yet, more and more Fosamax users are reporting that they simply stood up from a chair or stepped off a curb and seconds later they were laying on the floor in unbearable pain, to be told by their doctor that they had fractured their femur. So what went wrong ??? And how was this defective drug able to get on the market in the first place? • Seventeen years ago, in September 1995, Merck received approval by the Unites States Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, for Fosamax without having performed any long-term safety testing of the drug. • Less than three years later, in May 1998, a study published in the Journal of …

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