Testing the drug “colchicine” for gout as a treatment for Corona virus in Britain

Scientists continue their attempts to find an effective treatment to counter the Corona virus attacks, according to a newspaper report TIME NOW NEWs The anti-inflammatory drug colchicine will be tested as a potential treatment for corona in one of the world’s largest trials in the latest effort to reuse existing drugs to fight the epidemic..

Experience will be customized RECOVERY Inpatient, the world’s largest clinical trial of inpatient treatments for the Corona virus, at least 2,500 patients were randomly assigned to receive colchicine, which is used as a treatment for gout.

Colchicine is an attractive drug to evaluate in a trial RECOVERY Because it’s a well-understood, inexpensive, and widely available professor, University of Oxford professor Peter Horby, who is the lead researcher involved in the trial, said.

The scientists who conducted the experiment said that inflammation plays a major role in infection with the Corona virus and that treatment with dexamethasone, another anti-inflammatory drug, has already shown that it can reduce deaths in more severe patients.

Earlier this month, one of the largest British trials also evaluated the pain reliever aspirin as a potential treatment for corona, to assess whether it might reduce the risk of blood clots in people with the disease, including other treatments being tested in a trial. RECOVERY The common antibiotic azithromycin and antibody cocktail Regeneron Which was used to treat Corona symptoms of US President Donald Trump.

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