Credit: Getty Images. Colchicine use had declined 27% by 2019 compared with before the 2010 price increase. The large colchicine price increase in 2010 led to a decrease in its use. Hospital and ...

Colchicine may be used with caution to manage flare-ups of crystal-induced arthritis among patients with severe chronic kidney disease, with dosage modifications and careful monitoring required.

The media reports that colchicine, a very old drug, has now been discovered to reduce the risk of recurrent heart disease and has a new FDA indication. Of course, the “discovery” has taken 10 years, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Benefits of low-dose colchicine were consistent in men over a median follow-up period of 28.6 months. Due to low ...

WASHINGTON — Colchicine does not protect against major cardiovascular adverse events after an acute myocardial infarction, according to a multinational placebo-controlled trial of more than 7000 ...

Any cardiovascular protection from colchicine in heart attack survivors seemed to be debunked with a better-powered randomized trial, researchers found. Between acute MI patients randomized to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a meta-analysis of seven trials, colchicine was associated with reduced risk for MACE in patients with CAD ...

WASHINGTON, DC—The short-term use of colchicine at the time of TAVI for severe aortic stenosis may curb the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) and the need for a new permanent pacemaker, the ...

A large price increase for colchicine in 2010 led to a significant falloff in its use for gout that persisted for the next decade while emergency and rheumatology visits for gout rose, suggesting ...

Colchicine is one of the oldest medicines with potent anti-inflammatory functions, widely used to treat rheumatic diseases such as gout, calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPDD), and familial ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused well over 2.3 million deaths in a little over a year. A new ...