Colchicine is an oral drug that has long been ... spread of New World screwworms into U.S. June 18 (UPI) -- Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Wednesday announced a plan to enhance the ...

Public spending on colchicine has grown exponentially over the past decade despite generics suggesting an uphill slog for patients seeking access to long-term therapy for gout or cardiac conditions.

Colchicine is effective for the treatment of recurrent pericarditis. However, conclusive data are lacking regarding the use of colchicine during a first attack of acute pericarditis and in the ...

Four months ago, the price of his medication suddenly went through the ceiling. Sixty tablets of Colchicine used to cost him $34.83, and cost his insurance company nothing. CBS News medical ...

Taxpayer dollars spent on colchicine have spiked thanks to a regulatory quirk that enabled a company to exclusively market the centuries-old drug and allowed other manufacturers to follow suit. US ...

The decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve and grant exclusive licensing of an expensive brand-name formulation (Colcrys) of the decades-old generic drug colchicine ...

The drug colchicine has been used for more than 2,000 years to treat the fiery joint-pain ailment called gout. It also is a remedy for a genetic disorder called familial Mediterranean fever ...

The drug is now indicated for reducing the risks of myocardial infarction, stroke, coronary revascularization, and cardiovascular deaths, following regulatory approval of Agepha Pharma's drug ...

Colchicine, used as an anti-inflammatory and gout remedy for thousands of years, has now been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reduce inflammation in the cardiovascular ...