Nov. 12, 2008-On October 1, 2007, FDA announced that it was reviewing safety data that raised concerns about a potential increased risk for atrial fibrillation in patients treated with a bisphosphonate drug (http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/early_comm/bisphosphonates.htm). An article and an accompanying letter to the editor in the May 3, 2007, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine described increased rates of serious atrial fibrillation in two different studies of women ages 65 to 89 years old with osteoporosis treated with the bisphosphonates, Reclast and Fosamax.
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