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Thursday Jul 2 | Tulsa World

Oldie but goodie medication works for bouts of gout

I am a 72-year-old male who suffered from gout for years. My doctor prescribed colchicine with directions to take one every four hours until I got diarrhea.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Gout, Medication

Thu Jun 25, 2009

SouthCoastToday.com

Taking aspirin is asset for him

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 47-year-old man with this question: Is it wise for me to take a daily aspirin? I have gout and have asked two pharmacists about taking aspirin.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Aspirin (generic), Bayer, Alka-Seltzer, Medication, Health, Gout, Stroke, Probenecid (generic), Benemid, Probalan

Tue Jun 23, 2009

HIV and Hepatitis

FDA Approves Didanosine (Videx) Label Changes Including Dosage...

FDA Approves Didanosine Label Changes Including Dosage Adjustments and Ribavirin Interaction Warning Summary: On June 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced changes to the product label for the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor didanosine .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Videx, Didanosine (generic), Medication, Food and Drug Administration, Health, Gout, Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS

Sat Jun 13, 2009

New York Times

Working to Improve on Allopurinol, the Standard for Gout

When it was approved in the 1960s, the drug allopurinol was considered a godsend to people with gout .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Health, Gout, Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Business News

Fri Jun 12, 2009

New York Times

The 'Disease of Kings' Extends Its Pain to the Middle Class

Lonnie Matthews, a retired building maintenance engineer in Burlington, N.C., has something in common with King Henry VIII, Sir Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Gout, Pain, Arthritis, Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Medication

Thu May 14, 2009

wjz.com

New Pill Soothes Pain Of Those Suffering From Gout

Burning pain, stiffness and swelling are all symptoms of a form of arthritis known as gout.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Gout, Arthritis, Medication

Mon May 11, 2009

The News-Journal

Drug therapy needed for gout attacks

Tom, a 50-year old construction worker, has a 20-year history of gout. On average, he suffers 5-6 gout attacks every year, affecting his toes, ankles, feet, or knees.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Gout, Medication, Probenecid (generic), Benemid, Probalan, Opinion

Wed Apr 29, 2009

Philadelphia Business Journal

Cephalon warns of drug combination

Cephalon is updating the prescribing information for its cancer treatment drug Treanda to include a warning about the use of the drug with allopurinol, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Cephalon, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Cancer, Health, Medication, Lymphoma

Fri Apr 10, 2009

RNweb

FDA approves febuxostat (Uloric), first new gout drug in 40 years

THE FDA HAS APPROVED THE FIRST NEW DRUG to treat gout in 40 years. Febuxostat reduces serum uric acid levels by blocking xanthine oxidase, an enzyme that creates uric acid by breaking down other compounds.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Gout, Healthcare Law, Law, Imuran, Azathioprine (generic), Medication, Purinethol, Mercaptopurine (generic), Theophylline (generic), Theo-Dur

Thu Apr 02, 2009

The Standard

Experts set priorities for drug safety

The task force charged with ensuring drugs dispensed in Hong Kong are safe will hold its first meeting on Friday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Medication, Gout

Tue Mar 31, 2009

Citrus County Chronicle

Richard Hoffmann, Ask the Pharmacist,

Q: I heard that a new drug was approved to treat gout. What can you tell me about it? A: The FDA recently approved Uloric , the first new treatment for gout in more than 40 years.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Gout, Medication, Arthritis

Mon Mar 23, 2009

CiteULike

Optimizing therapy with allopurinol: factors limiting hypouricemic efficacy.

Allopurinol is a moderately active hypouricemic drug. Its activity is largely the result of the inhibition of xanthine oxidoreductase by oxypurinol, the active metabolite of allopurinol.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Health, Gout, Probenecid (generic), Benemid, Probalan

Fri Mar 13, 2009

Notes from Dr. RW

DRESS syndrome

DRESS syndrome is the term increasingly used to refer to many cases of what has traditionally been called drug hypersensitivity syndrome, including anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome and allopurinol ...

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Related Topix: Medication

Wed Mar 11, 2009

The Standard

Gout sufferers in rush to return tainted pills

Thousands of patients rushed to 15 public hospitals yesterday to replace a drug contaminated by a fungus that may be linked to five deaths.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Gout, Medication

Mon Mar 09, 2009

EMaxHealth

Hong Kong: Mucormycosis Drug Found Contaminated

The Hong Kong Department of Health announced that follow-up investigations into patient cases of invasive gastrointestinal mucormycosis in public hospitals last month had revealed that one of the pharmaceutical ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication

Reuters

Hong Kong says drug contaminated with lethal fungus

Hong Kong health authorities said on Monday that a tainted drug possibly linked to the deaths of five patients likely became contaminated with a lethal fungus during its manufacture.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Health

Sun Mar 08, 2009

CiteULike

Nox4 NADPH oxidase mediates oxidative stress and apoptosis caused by...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication

Sat Mar 07, 2009

Shanghai Daily

Fungus tainted drug stopped

HONG Kong health authorities have ordered a local drug maker to suspend production of its treatment for gout after it was found to be tainted with fungus, officials said yesterday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Gout, Medication

Fri Mar 06, 2009

The Standard

Tainted medicine linked to deaths of three patients (Hong Kong) (2...

A popular gout medicine has been found to have been contaminated with a rare fungus that was linked to the deaths of three Queen Mary Hospital patients over the past year.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Gout, Medication

Wed Mar 04, 2009

SouthCoastToday.com

Medicines usually can control gout

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I'm just an old country woman who needs to know more about gout.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Probenecid (generic), Benemid, Probalan

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