A new study has shown that there is an inverse relationship between serum uric acid levels and gout, and the risk of parkinson’s disease. [...]
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Based on the results of recent testing a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expert panel has recommended that febuxostat be approved. This would make febuxostat, to be marketed as Uloric, the first gout drug to be approved in over 40 years. [...] The Japanese pharmaceutical, Takeda, has been testing a new drug for use in treating gout. They had applied for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2004, but the FDA had requested more data as a result of concerns about a possible increase in heart attack risk. The drug is known [...] The Arthritis Foundation recently came out with its list of the top 10 arthritis events for the year 2007. This series will focus on those events. #3: Projections of Increases in Doctor-Diagnosed Arthritis and Arthritis-Attributable Activity Limitation It is estimated that 46 million adults in the U.S are afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis or [...] Researchers, led by Dr. Hyon K. Choi of the University of British Columbia Department of Medicine, have looked into the link between sugar-sweetened soft drinks and the incidence of gout, a form of arthritis. Most sugar-sweetened soft drinks contain large amounts of fructose, a naturally occurring simple sugar found in many foods, such as [...] |
  
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