Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 25% of patients with gout who use colchicine prophylaxis were on potentially interacting medications.

In recent years, scientists have increasingly turned their attention to older, affordable drugs to explore whether they offer benefits beyond their original purpose. Colchicine, a cheap and widely ...

Patients with gout are commonly prescribed colchicine prophylaxis, despite already taking medications that could potentially interact. Patients with gout are commonly prescribed colchicine prophylaxis ...

In patients with gout starting allopurinol as a long-term urate-lowering therapy, the prophylactic use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was associated with a higher risk for major ...

The FDA approved colchicine (Lodoco) for cardiovascular prevention in adults with established atherosclerotic disease or multiple risk factors, making it the first anti-inflammatory medicine with such ...

Due to a policy decision in 2010 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the price of a prescription for the therapeutic gout drug colchicine increased nearly 16-fold from $11.25 in 2009 to ...

NEW YORK CITY — Urate, the culprit of gout, affects the vasculature in multiple ways that can raise cardiovascular risk (CV) in an individual with gout, and following guidelines for gout treatment, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 2010 increase in colchicine prices was immediately followed by a decrease in the drug’s use for gout.

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