How to Use colchicine in a Sentence
colchicine
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The drug colchicine has been used for more than 2,000 years to treat the fiery joint-pain ailment called gout.
—Ron Winslow, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2023
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Patients receive colchicine or placebo pills in the mail and do not need to be seen in person.
—J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 23 Apr. 2020
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The person told police Bowman was researching colchicine, a drug used to treat gout, the complaint said.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
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In 2009 the Food and Drug Administration approved a new version of colchicine, which treats symptoms of gout.
—Mark L. Baum, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2017
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Bowman had not received calls about colchicine, and no other employee received calls about the drug, the complaint said.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
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In retrospect, her death is a textbook case of colchicine poisoning.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
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Blood and urine samples from Betty Bowman showed colchicine present in her body, and her records do not show that she had been diagnosed with gout or prescribed colchicine by doctors.
—Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
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There’s also an oral medication that’s called colchicine.
—Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 21 Sep. 2020
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The reason is the fundamentally disruptive way colchicine works.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
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Known since the Middle Ages, colchicine had been one of those ancient discoveries that had found new life in a host of scientific and medical applications during the modern era.
—Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2018
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The idea that colchicine—a poison drawn from the seeds and stem of the lovely autumn crocus—could be used to prevent complications in patients undergoing heart surgery was an intoxicating one.
—Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2018
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The rheumatologist prescribed a hefty dose of prednisone and another anti-inflammatory drug, colchicine, which is used to treat gout as well as pseudogout.
—New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
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The anti-inflammatory drug colchicine — sold as Colcrys, Mitigare and in generic form — was tested in 4,745 people who recently had a heart attack.
—Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
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About 6,000 patients are receiving colchicine or a placebo during the clinical trial, dubbed Colcorona, which began in March and is expected to be completed in September.
—Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2020
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