A troubling jaw disease that may be related to the use of some of the most commonly used osteoporosis medications has been the subject of many news stories and law firm commercials lately. The disease ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) is a serious complication for physicians prescribing bone resorption inhibitors to patients with osteoporosis. A session at the recent French Congress of Rheumatology ...

Dear Doctors: My mom is 61. She started having hip pain and figured it meant a hip replacement surgery at some point in the future. When she saw her doctor, the tests showed osteonecrosis, and the ...

The use of antiresorptive drugs for tumor-related disorders and oral, but not injectable, corticosteroids were associated with an increased risk for osteonecrosis of the jaw among patients with ...