Archive for the ‘Gout’ Category
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVNT) announced further information related to infusion reactions and deaths for their Phase 3 clinical trials for Puricase(R) (pegloticase) being developed for treatment failure gout patients.
Severe and Serious Infusion Reactions
Our preliminary analysis indicated that 19 patients or 11% of pegloticase treated patients experienced an infusion reaction ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Ipsen (Paris:IPN) announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) provided a positive opinion for Adenuric® (febuxostat) 80 mg and 120 mg tablets for the treatment of chronic hyperuricaemia in gout and recommended it for marketing authorisation. The CHMP recommendation will ...
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Researchers have discovered a pivotal new player in early events that commit fat cell precursors to becoming full-blown fat, according to a report in the February issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, published by Cell Press. Drugs that block some activities of the enzyme, known as xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR), might ...
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Friday, April 6th, 2007
Savient 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 gout, under the auspices of a Special Protocol Assessment from ...
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
Climatic factors such as heat and humidity that lead to dehydration can signal a future attack for gout sufferers, according to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington DC.
Gout, caused by deposits of monosodium uric crystals, causes severe pain and swelling of ...
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
The 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 disease and its treatments, embrace lifestyle modifications and, ...
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Results 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 reported having ...
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