18 December 2015

AstraZeneca today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending the marketing authorisation of lesinurad 200mg tablets. Lesinurad, in combination with a xanthine oxidase inhibitor (XOI), is recommended for the adjunctive treatment of hyperuricaemia in adult gout patients (with or without tophi) who have not achieved target serum uric acid levels (sUA) with an adequate dose of a XOI alone.

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