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

The use of colchicine prophylaxis during the process of up-titrating allopurinol slowly to reach target serum urate levels for patients with gout proved necessary to reduce the risk of flares in a ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients taking colchicine had a weighted hazard ratio of 0.82 (95% CI, 0.69-0.94) for cardiovascular events.

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.

PHILADELPHIA, PA—Colchicine, an anti-inflammatory indicated for gout and pericarditis, can lower the risk of ischemic cardiovascular events in patients who’ve recently had an MI, according to the ...

A press release from a Canadian research group raised hopes that treating people recently diagnosed with Covid-19 with colchicine, a drug commonly used to treat gout, could reduce the risk they will ...

The anti-inflammatory benefits of a common gout medicine may help save the lives of heart failure patients, researchers say. The medication, colchicine, could also reduce the risk of heart attack and ...

The media reports that colchicine, a very old drug, has now been discovered to reduce the risk of recurrent heart disease and has a new FDA indication. Of course, the “discovery” has taken 10 years, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The gout drug colchicine is safe for women to take during pregnancy, report researchers from Israel. In addition to the debilitating joint disorder gout, the ...