Side effects of gout medicine colchicine cautioned against

A prescription medicine used to treat gout is suspected to have caused 10 deaths in Taiwan over the past eight years due to side effects that can sometimes be severe, Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Thursday.

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