Boniva (ibandronate) is a brand-name oral tablet that’s prescribed to help prevent and treat osteoporosis. As with other drugs, Boniva can cause side effects, such as jaw or teeth problems. In rare ...

What if a drug you take that your doctor prescribed five years ago to prevent fractures was actually found to cause them? In the meantime, a delicate dance has ensued between the FDA and the ...

The first generic versions of Roche's bone-strengthening drug Boniva have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Boniva, known generically as ibandronate, is taken once a month to ...

The global market for osteoporosis treatments was valued at $6.8 billion in 2009, led by bisphosphonate drugs, according to a Transparency Market Research report. Boniva and Novartis (NYSE:NVS) drug ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patients who want an injectable form of Roche Holding AG's bone-strengthening drug Boniva may not be able to get it in the next few weeks because the company did not accurately ...

Marketing osteoporosis drugs has grown more complicated since Merck's Fosamax went off patent a couple years ago. Now that there are low-cost alternatives to branded bisphosphonate treatments, ...

Procter & Gamble and Sanofi-Aventis filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court Wednesday seeking an injunction to halt advertising for Roche and GlaxoSmithKline’s jointly marketed Boniva (ibandronate ...

Roche and partner GlaxoSmithKline can continue a direct-to-consumer advertising campaign for its osteoporosis drug Boniva in the USA, according to a federal judge, despite objections from rivals ...

The watchdog group has road-tested a bunch of drug ads and not liked what it found. The CR format is amusing -- they play sections of the ad and CR associate editor Jamie Kopf Hirsch provides a ...

In this installment of our Adwatch video series—our sixth—we turn to a commercial for Boniva (ibandronate), a drug for osteoporosis. The ad features beloved actress Sally Field, who looks refreshingly ...

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 ...

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 ...