Actress Sally Field is going to plotz when she hears about this new once-a-year treatment to prevent osteoporosis. It makes her beloved once-a-month Boniva (ibandronate sodium) look like a pile of poo.
Ivanhoe Newswire reported earlier this month that annual doses of zoledronic acid (brand name Reclast) have been clinically proven to demonstrate a 70% reduction in risk of vertebral fractures and a 41% reduction in risk of hip fractures over a 3-year period in postmenopausal women age 65-89 years. Other types of fractions were also reduced considerably.
In the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, participants received …read more