Archive for the 'General Gout' Category

New Treatment For Resistant Gout Enters a New Clinical Trial

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Drug manufacturer Savient has announced that the drug Puricase is entering a new phase of clinical trials. This is great news for people whose Gout does not respond to standard drug treatments or those who are unable to take currently available medicines.
Given that pork products have long been acknowledged to hasten Gout attacks, it is […]

77 year old Gout Sufferer climbs Empire State

Monday, February 27th, 2006

PittsburghLIVE! is running a story on a very determined man named Bob Eazor.
When Eazor - who is now 77 - was in his thirties he was diagnosed with Gout and told he would be on medication for the rest of his life. At that moment, Bob decided to make a major life change, and […]

Dick Cheney’s Gout and its effect on global politics

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

US Vice-President Dick Cheney has been discharged from the hospital. There is some difference of opinion between his doctors, but it seems that Cheney may be suffering from Gout.
In a related story, the US government has announced its new plan to bring the gifts of freedom and democracy to all countries that export tart cherry […]