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After scrolling down on the blog in bob's post I found this, confirming that it is a made up disease.

Will Five Straight Years Of Fosamax® Prescriptions Double Esophageal Cancer Risks?

September 2, 2010

A study conducted in the United Kingdom has found that patients over the age of 40 who were on bisphosphonates (like Merck’s Fosamax®) for more than five years, increased their risk for esophageal cancers from 1 in 1,000 — to 2 in 1,000. That may be an acceptable risk elevation, if one has full-on osteoporosis, but I’d think twice about it, if all I had was the largely made-up condition called “osteopenia“. Per Reuters reporting, tonight:

http://anewmerckreviewed.wordpress.com/