Uloric Would Be First New Gout Drug in Decades
San Gabriel Valley Tribune › December 10, 2008
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WASHINGTON - U.S. government health advisers Monday recommended approval of the first new drug in 40 years for gout, a painful joint disease that mainly strikes middle-aged men.
About 5 million people in the United States suffer from gout, a form of arthritis caused by a build-up of uric acid in the blood. Uloric, as the new drug is called, works by reducing levels of uric acid.See the full content of this document
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Uloric Would Be First New Gout Drug in Decades
In healthy people, uric acid is dissolved in the bl...
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