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Extreme Pain Of Gout Is Detrimental To Quality Of Life & Work , New Poll Shows
Categorie : GoutResults of a new survey show that two-thirds (65 percent) of gout patients ranked their typical gout flares -- defined as a sudden, intense pain -- as either close to, or the worst pain possible and say that the flares last an average of eight days. Seventy-two percent report ...
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Sun Oct 2007
Non-Profit Group Launches Educational Web Site For Gout Sufferers
Categorie : GoutThe Gout & Uric Acid Education Society, a non-profit group of health care professionals, today launched http://www.gouteducation.org , a valuable educational resource for gout sufferers and their caregivers. The Web site is designed to help gout sufferers enhance their understanding of the d ...
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Sun Oct 2007
Savient Pharmaceuticals Completes Puricase Phase 3 Studies For Treatment-Failure Gout
Categorie : GoutSavient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVNT) announced the completion of the in-life portion of its two pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials for Puricase® (pegloticase) in patients with treatment-failure gout, an orphan indication. Puricase is a pegylated recombinant mammalian urate oxidase ...
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Sun Oct 2007
Coffee Consumption May Lower Blood Uric Acid Levels -- The Precursor Of Gout
Categorie : GoutHigh uric acid levels in the blood are a precursor of gout, the most common inflammatory arthritis in adult men. It is believed that coffee and tea consumption may affect uric acid levels but only one study has been conducted to date. A new large-scale study published in the June 2007 issue of A ...
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Sun Oct 2007
Savient Announces Completion Of Patient Enrollment In Phase 3 Trials Of Puricase® For Treatment-Failure Gout
Categorie : GoutSavient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVNT) announced today that it has reached its Phase 3 enrollment target of 200 patients total, in the two replicate placebo-controlled six-month clinical trials. The trials assess the safety and efficacy of Puricase in patients with treatment-failure ...
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Sun Oct 2007
Coffee Consumption May Lower Blood Uric Acid Levels -- The Precursor Of Gout
Categorie : GoutHigh uric acid levels in the blood are a precursor of gout, the most common inflammatory arthritis in adult men. It is believed that coffee and tea consumption may affect uric acid levels but only one study has been conducted to date. A new large-scale study published in the June 2007 issue of Arthr ...
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Sun Jun 2007
Increased Coffee Consumption Linked To Decreased Risk Of Gout In Men Over Age 40
Categorie : GoutCoffee is a habit for more than 50 percent of Americans, who drink, on average, 2 cups per day. This widely consumed beverage is regularly investigated and debated for its impact on health conditions from breast cancer to heart disease. Among its complex effects on the body, coffee or its components ...
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Wed May 2007
Gout News from Medical News Today
Categorie : GoutLatest Gout news updated throughout the day, every day ...
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Tue Aug 2006
Gout Increases Risk Of Heart Attack, According To University Of Pittsburgh Study
Categorie : GoutPeople with gout are at increased risk of having a heart attack, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published in the August edition of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. The article is available on line at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/76509746. [cli ...
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Mon Aug 2006
Glimmer Of Hope For Gout Patients
Categorie : GoutFor over 100 years we have known that the intensely painful disease gout is caused by the accumulation of monosodium urate crystals (MSU) in joints. Now, in a study appearing in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Kenneth Rock and colleagues from University of Massachusetts Me ...
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Mon Aug 2006
Puricase, First New Drug Treatment Approach For Gout In 40 Years, Could Potentially Revolutionise Treatment For Some
Categorie : GoutThe first new class of drug to emerge in 40 years for treating chronic gout has the potential to radically alter the outlook for thousands of patients unable to benefit from currently available therapies, says the drug's developer Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc. who presented Phase II data at this year ...
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Mon Aug 2006
Investigational drug Puricase(R) helps patients with gout, according to study results
Categorie : GoutSavient Pharmaceuticals, Inc announced that patients withelevated blood uric acid levels and treatment-resistant gout who were treatedwith its investigational drug Puricase(R) (PEG-uricase) had substantial andsustained reduction in plasma urate levels, according to study results thatwere presented o ...
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Mon Aug 2006
Patient Dosing in Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Puricase for Severe Gout Completed
Categorie : GoutSavient Pharmaceuticals, Inc (NASDAQ: SVNT), an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing pharmaceutical products that address unmet medical needs today announced the completion of patient dosing in a Phase 2 clinical trial of Puricase(R), a poly(et ...
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Mon Aug 2006
TAP Submits New Drug Application for Febuxostat for Hyperuricemia in Chronic Gout
Categorie : GoutOSAKA, JAPAN --- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited ("Takeda") announced today that TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc ("TAP"), its 50-50 joint venture with Abbott Laboratories, submitted a New Drug Application ("NDA") on December 14 with the US Food and Drug Administration for febuxostat 80mg an ...
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Mon Aug 2006
Milk helps gout meat and seafood do not
Categorie : GoutIf you want to prevent painful gout you should drink milk and dairy products. You should not, however, eat lots of red meat and seafood. This is according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Hyon Choi, study leader, said that this is the first evidence that dairy products can be ...
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Mon Aug 2006
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