Other News To Note

• Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Bridgewater, N.J., said the European Commission granted marketing authorization to Krystexxa (pegloticase) for the treatment of severe debilitating chronic tophaceous gout in adults who may also have erosive joint involvement and who have failed to normalize serum uric acid with xanthine oxidase inhibitors at the maximum medically appropriate dose or for whom those medications are contraindicated.