Gout is a common and painful form of inflammatory arthritis that can lead to joint damage and other complications if left untreated. Despite outdated misconceptions, gout is still very much a current ...

A clinical trial explores whether tailoring gout treatment to the underlying cause of elevated uric acid can improve outcomes. Credit: Stock Should doctors rethink the standard gout treatment? Gout ...

New research indicates that a drug commonly prescribed for gout may also lower the risk of heart attack and stroke when taken at an appropriate dose. Researchers from the UK, Sweden and Italy analysed ...

Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol So exclaimed the crotchety Mrs Meg in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, in which Olivia Colman plays a ...