Love Your Heart: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast
A Cleveland Clinic podcast to help you learn more about heart and vascular disease and conditions affecting your chest. We explore prevention, diagnostic tests, medical and surgical treatments, new innovations and more.
Love Your Heart: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast
New Use for an Old Medication: Colchicine
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Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new use for the medication colchicine. This medication can now be used to decrease the risk of cardiac events in some patients. Dr. Steve Nissen and Dr. Vik Sunder discuss this new development and what it means for patients.