Colchicine, a cheap and widely used gout drug, may help prevent heart attacks and strokes in people with cardiovascular disease. Trials involving nearly 23,000 patients show meaningful reductions in ...

A cheap gout medication, colchicine, shows significant promise in preventing heart attacks and strokes for individuals with ...

The gout medicine allopurinol has failed to reduce the primary endpoint of nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke or cardiovascular death in patients with ischemic heart disease, according to ...

Gene Test Can Predict Risk For Gout Medicine Side Effects By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new gene test might be able to predict which gout patients ...

A low dose of colchicine — a commonly used gout drug — helped reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with ...

Reviving an ancient human gene that prevents gout and fatty liver disease, scientists at Georgia State University have marked ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Use of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) reduced the need for urate-lowering therapy (ULT) and gout flare therapies in people who had both type 2 diabetes (T2D) and ...

The study revealed how a second drug taken orally more than doubled the effectiveness of Pegloticase, an intravenous gout treatment used to dissolve crystalized uric acid in the joints when oral ...

Gout causes sudden, severe toe joint pain triggered by alcohol, purine-rich foods, trauma, or dehydration. Attacks show ...

A new gene test might predict skin side effects from a common gout medication Two genes combined can account for side effect risk in more than 80% of U.S. gout patients The current test uses only one ...

The current test uses only one of the genes, and it misses many patients at risk FRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new gene test might be able to predict which gout patients will have a bad ...