Patent applications for osteoporosis drugs on the rise yearly by 25%.

Apart from ever rising trend in so called "Quality of Life" enhancing drugs, number of patent applications for the osteoporosis drug development also shows a remarkable growing stance yearly by 25%.

The Patent Office reported that number of applications for osteoporosis drugs increased yearly by 40 cases from 1994 to 1996 but by 112 cases in 1997, about 180% up from the previous years, and k...