Salmon-Derived Osteoporosis Drugs Face Upstream Struggle Against Cancer Concerns
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
A March 5 joint meeting of the FDA advisory committees for Reproductive Health Drugs and Drug Safety and Risk Management will consider whether the benefit of taking calcitonin salmon, a hormone that increases the amount of calcium in the bones, to treat postmenopausal osteoporosis outweighs the potential risk of cancer; in July 2012, the European Medicines Agency concluded the risk with long-term use was too great and eliminated the osteoporosis indication for calcitonins.
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