1.   As a busy internist in West Palm Beach, Fla., Dr. Bruce Moskowitz frequently prescribes cholesterol-lowering medicines and osteoporosis drugs for his elderly patients.

2.   Baum and Buzdar noted that osteoporosis drugs are available to counter bone weakening.

3.   Breu said that Sandoz expects further sales in the U.S. in the second half of the year as Neoral and osteoporosis drug Miacalcic will come to the U.S. market.

4.   Compliance is a concern for all osteoporosis drugs currently on the market.

5.   Current osteoporosis drugs work by slowing the rate of bone loss.

6.   Lilly intends to spend the extra money on researching new drugs and marketing its new osteoporosis drug Evista.

7.   Lilly is seeking FDA approval, for example, of its osteoporosis prevention drug Evista, which has also been shown to help prevent breast cancer in some studies.

8.   NPS Pharmaceuticals, a Utah biotech company specializing in calcium regulation, is developing several osteoporosis drugs in collaboration with SmithKline Beecham.

9.   Other new osteoporosis drugs are derived from bisphosphenates, the compound family that yielded Fosamax.

10.   Results improved on stronger sales of newer products, such as the osteoporosis drug Fosamax and the high blood-pressure treatment Cozaar.