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 ...

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

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 ...

In a phase 2 trial, firsekibart — an IL-1 beta antibody — outperforms colchicine in preventing acute gout flares over 12 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...