A study conducted in 2003 by the University of California, Davis was the first to test for key inflammatory indicators, called markers, in blood samples from healthy people. [...]
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Arthritis Awareness Week is March 29th to April 4th, an initiative of Arthritis Australia, and is a time of promotional and educational activities, held around the country, to raise awareness about arthritis, its effects, and the various treatment and management options available. Arthritis Australia hopes that these activities will make all Australians aware that arthritis is not [...] A study published in the March 9th issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine indicates that vitamin C supplementation may help prevent gout. For twenty years beginning in 1986 researchers appraised the association between vitamin C and the incidence of gout. Their study was based on nearly 47,000 men who had no history of gout. The participants [...] Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc, has been conducting a clinical trial of its experimental gout treatment drug Puricase. Puricase is intended for use in patients that have not had success in treatment of their gout with other therapies. The trial included 212 patients, of which 158 completed the randomized trial. The company reported that 19 of the patients that [...] Two recent studies have found the high levels of urate, the cause of gout, may slow, or even help prevent, the progression of Parkinson’s disease symptoms. Urate, which is a salt formed from uric acid, is naturally produced in the body. It is known that too much urate can result in problems like gout, however, it does [...] |
  
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