For those who have trouble swallowing pills a new delivery system for taking a medication to increase bone mass.  It won’t be available until sometime in the 3rd quarter.  BD

FREIENBACH, Switzerland, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EffRx Pharmaceuticals SA today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug imageAdministration (FDA) has approved BINOSTO™ (alendronate sodium) Effervescent Tablets, previously known as EX101, for the treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, and as a treatment to increase bone mass in men with osteoporosis. EffRx anticipates that BINOSTO™ will be commercially available in the United States in the third quarter of 2012.

Christer Rosen, Chairman & CEO of EffRx states: "We are very pleased to receive this approval from the FDA. BINOSTO™ is a breakthrough innovation for the treatment of osteoporosis, offering those patients who have difficulty with tablets the proven fracture risk reduction of alendronate in a pleasant tasting and easy-to-swallow buffered solution."

http://www.bradenton.com/2012/03/14/3938840/fda-approves-binosto-first-and.html

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