High uric acid levels can lead to symptoms and eventually conditions like gout and kidney disease. Most uric acid is produced naturally in your body. The rest is converted from substances in certain ...

Taking prednisone can make the liver resistant to insulin, raising blood sugar levels and potentially leading to steroid-induced diabetes. Steroids may also worsen existing diabetes symptoms.

In a recent study of patients with acute gout, oral prednisolone was as effective as — and better tolerated than — indomethacin (JW May 17 2007). Those findings suggested the following ...

A short course of prednisone reduced the need for hospitalization or therapeutic procedures. In resource-limited settings, many people starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) are already being ...

1 Department of Orthopaedics, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China 2 College of Nursing, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China Objective: Gout is a common ...

When you hear the word gout, the first image which comes to mind is probably that of Henry VIII, who developed the condition after a life-time of overindulging on rich foods and alcohol.

NICE is unable to make a recommendation about the use in the NHS of niraparib (Zejula) with abiraterone acetate and prednisone for untreated hormone-relapsed metastatic prostate cancer in adults. This ...

NICE is unable to make a recommendation about the use in the NHS of niraparib with abiraterone acetate and prednisone for untreated hormone-relapsed metastatic prostate cancer in adults. This is ...

FOR centuries, gout has been a deeply misunderstood disease, associated only with jolly, indulgent, and often big men. When Henry VIII was diagnosed, it became firmly entrenched in popular belief ...

Gout, also popularly known as the disease of the kings and king of diseases, is a type of arthritis that indicates excess uric acid in your body. These uric acids crystallise and collect in the ...

Objective Macrophage activation by monosodium urate (MSU) and calcium pyrophosphate (CPP) crystals mediates an interleukin (IL)-1β-dependent inflammation during gout and pseudo-gout flare, ...