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April 30th 2024
Findings indicated treatment with colchicine resulted in a significant reduction in mortality rate compared with placebo or standard care.
Jeff Peterson, MD: FDA Announces Priority Review of Pegloticase Plus Methotrexate for Gout Treatment
Jeff Peterson, MD, explains the importance of the recent FDA announcement granting priority review of the Supplemental Biologics License Application for concomitant use of pegloticase injection (KRYSTEXXA) plus methotrexate for patients with uncontrolled gout.
A Better Design for Gout Diagnosis: UCLA Researchers Propose Higher Resolution, Lens-Free System
Frequency of gout in the United States has tripled in the last 50 years, but the realm of medical imaging has seen even more exponential growth. A group from UCLA has released designs for a system that provides a field of view 100 times larger than the former “gold standard†for gout diagnosis.