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Gout: Clues To Clinical Diagnosis Medical News Today (press release), UK - 1 hour ago Risk factors for gout include family history, older age, renal insufficiency, use of medications that reduce urate excretion, high intake of foods that ...

Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (SVNT) Says FDA Gives Fast Review to ... Lifescience-online, Switzerland - Dec 30, 2008 Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Company's Biologics License ...

Savient Pharma shares rise as gout drug granted fast review Forbes, NY - Dec 30, 2008 Dec 30 (Reuters) - Shares of Savient Pharmaceuticals rose as much as 31 percent on Tuesday, a day after the company's gout drug, pegloticase, ...

FDA to expedite review of Savient's gout medicine SmartBrief, DC - Dec 30, 2008 The FDA granted priority-review status for Savient Pharmaceuticals' pegloticase, an intravenous treatment for gout. The drugmaker wants to market the ...

FDA to expedite review of Savient's gout medicine SmartBrief, DC - Dec 30, 2008 The FDA granted priority-review status for Savient Pharmaceuticals' pegloticase, an intravenous treatment for gout. The drugmaker wants to market the ...

Savient Pharma's BLA For Gout Drug Pegloticase Accepted For ... RTT News, NY - Dec 29, 2008 (RTTNews) - Monday, Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (SVNT: News ), announced that the US Food and Drug Administration has accepted for review its Biologics ...

Savient says FDA gives fast review to gout drug Forbes, NY - Dec 29, 2008 AP , 12.29.08, 05:54 PM EST The Food and Drug Administration accepted an application for Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s gout drug pegloticase and will give ...

Consumption of fructose implicated in gout Philippine Star, Philippines - Dec 27, 2008 At the annual meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology it was said that consumption of soft drinks containing fructose may underlie the sharp ...

Briefs: FDA advisers back new drug for gout Tampabay.com, FL - Dec 23, 2008 By Times staff, wire reports Government health advisers recommend approval of the first new drug in 40 years for gout. About 50-million people in the United ...

'Tis the Season' for Gout? News Health Guru, NY - Dec 18, 2008 At one time, gout was a disease that struck mainly older people of the upper class. Now, thanks largely in part to rising rates of obesity and diabetes, ...