Share on Pinterest Scientists have repurposed a common gout drug to see if it helps reduce heart attacks and strokes in people with cardiovascular disease. Design by MNT; Photography by Eversame, CC ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — The use of colchicine for gout flare prevention imparts a “modest” decrease in the risk for knee or ...

The drug colchicine may reduce cardiovascular outcomes among patients with gout, based on a range of retrospective data that suggest improved outcomes and mechanistic connections between gout and ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients referred for PCI after acute heart attack, colchicine did not improve heart-related outcomes vs.

A large price increase for colchicine in 2010 led to a significant falloff in its use for gout that persisted for the next decade while emergency and rheumatology visits for gout rose, suggesting ...

A cheap gout medication, colchicine, shows significant promise in preventing heart attacks and strokes for individuals with existing heart disease. A new Cochrane review highlights its ability to ...

Colchicine does not significantly reduce perioperative atrial fibrillation (AF) or myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) in patients undergoing major non-cardiac thoracic surgery, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 29, 2024 – The largest trial to examine the impact of colchicine in acute myocardial infarction (MI) found that both acute and long-term colchicine use did not reduce ...