The retrial of the Fosamax/osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) trial that ended in a mistrial last year got under way June 7 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the drug company Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., bringing to a close a decade-long legal battle that had stalled ...

(CN) - A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a Mississippi woman's lawsuit against Merck & Co., who claimed the osteoporosis drug Fosamax caused her jaw damage. The dismissal comes two months after ...

A federal judge overseeing consolidated litigation against Merck & Co over jaw injuries allegedly caused by the osteoporosis drug Fosamax has ordered hundreds of cases be dispersed to courts across ...

A new trial is scheduled to begin June 2 for the Fosamax/osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) case that ended in a mistrial last September, according to a story on aboutlawsuits.com. The lawsuit involves a ...

Two recent reports have linked the osteoporosis drug alendronate (Fosamax) with rare but serious side effects. In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine published Jan. 1, a Food and Drug ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kent Klaudt of the national plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP announced that Reba Inez Patton and her husband Patrick Patton of Tennessee have ...

PHILADELPHIA (CN) - In a sweeping reversal against the drugmaker Merck, the Third Circuit revived hundreds of class actions by people whose thigh bones shattered while they were taking the ...