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Lasofoxifene, sold under the brand name Fablyn, is a nonsteroidal selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) which is marketed by Pfizer in Lithuania and Portugal for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and for the treatment of vaginal atrophy, [1] [2] and the result of an exclusive research collaboration with Ligand Pharmaceuticals (LGND).
Medication costs can be the selling price from the manufacturer, that price together with shipping, the wholesale price, the retail price, and the dispensed price. [3]The dispensed price or prescription cost is defined as a cost which the patient has to pay to get medicines or treatments which are written as directions on prescription by a prescribers. [4]
NPS-2143 (SB-262,470A) is a calcilytic drug which acts as an antagonist at the Calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR), and consequently stimulates release of parathyroid hormone. [1] Calcilytic drugs have been researched as potential treatments for osteoporosis , and as the first such compound developed, NPS-2143 is still widely used in research into ...
The drug is one of only two treatments that help to promote bone formation, and the first to reduce bone loss at the same time. First osteoporosis drug of its kind for more than a decade approved ...
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It was approved for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and was the first clinically available SERM to prevent both osteoporosis and breast cancer. [9] Ospemifene was approved on February 26, 2013, for the treatment of moderate to severe dyspareunia , which is a symptom, due to menopause , of vulvar and vaginal atrophy .
Prescription drug list prices in the United States continually are among the highest in the world. [1] [2] The high cost of prescription drugs became a major topic of discussion in the 21st century, leading up to the American health care reform debate of 2009, and received renewed attention in 2015.
Strontium ranelate, a strontium(II) salt of ranelic acid, is a medication for osteoporosis marketed as Protelos or Protos by Servier. Studies indicate it can also slow the course of osteoarthritis of the knee. [1] The drug is unusual in that it both increases deposition of new bone by osteoblasts and reduces the resorption of bone by ...