Internal Medicine News - Desensitization found effective for allopurinol
September 15, 2005 -- DESTIN, FLA. -- Oral desensitization appears to be safe and effective for patients who are allergic to allopurinol and cannot take other...
PR Newswire - Phase III Trial Results Show Elitek® Significantly Reduced Plasma Uric Acid Levels versus Allopurinol in Adults with Hematologic Cancers at Risk for...
December 6, 2008 -- - Results Presented at ASH Annual Meeting - SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sanofi-aventis today announced results of a randomized...
HealthDay - Drug May Lower Blood Pressure in Adolescents With Hypertension
August 26, 2008 -- The drug allopurinol -- a drug used to lower uric acid levels -- may lower blood pressure in adolescents with high blood pressure, a new study shows....
Chain Drug Review - Ascend Laboratories LLC
September 29, 2008 -- MONTVALE, N.J. -- Ascend Laboratories LLC was started in 2000 as a research and development division of its parent, The PharmaNetwork (TPN)....
Internal Medicine News - Serum urate not always up in acute gout
September 15, 2008 -- PARIS -- Serum urate levels are often normal during acute gouty arthritis attacks, according to Dr. Naomi Schlesinger. In what Dr. Schlesinger...
Internal Medicine News - In high doses, gout drugs equally effective
September 15, 2008 -- PARIS -- Gout patients have equal rates of success in attaining a serum urate concentration of 0.30 mmol/L or less--a value thought to predict good...
Business Wire - Regeneron's ARCALYST® Reduced Incidence of Gout Flares by 81 Percent in a Phase 2 Study in Gout Patients Initiating Urate-Lowering Therapy
September 3, 2008 -- Proportion of patients experiencing gout flares reduced from 45.2 percent to 14.6 percent TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc....
Internal Medicine News - Preventing pancreatitis after ERCP: risk stratification is important
May 1, 2008 -- MONTREAL -- Prophylactic administration of allopurinol before endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography does not reduce the risk of...
Internal Medicine News - Hyperuricemia linked to hypertension
September 15, 2007 -- ORLANDO -- Hyperuricemia was an independent risk factor for the development of hypertension in a post hoc analysis of data collected on more than...
Saturday Evening Post - Help for hand cramps and gout
November 1, 2007 -- Dear Dr. SerVaas, Re: Cramps, Quinine and Tonic (SEP May 2007). I am a violinist who had a threat to his career with severe hand cramps. Dr....
