Patients presenting to the emergency department for gout flares face low rates of follow-up care and frequent repeat visits after discharge.

As a child, James Mackay watched his father struggle just to stand up. “You shouldn’t have eaten this or that,” his mother would nudge, assuming a poor diet and sloth prompted his pain. She didn’t see ...

People living with gout already face painful joint flare-ups, but new research from the University of Nottingham suggests that bringing uric acid levels under control within a year may also cut the ...

Gout is a very painful type of inflammatory arthritis that can be debilitating, and sudden flare-ups can be even more so. A News 9 viewer says they keep getting flare-ups of gout, and want to know ...

Among patients with gouty arthritis initiating urate-lowering therapy, a single subcutaneous injection of firsekibart — an interleukin-1 beta antibody — reduced acute flares more than a daily dose of ...

Treatment with clindamycin vs trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole was associated with a significantly higher rate of gout flares, particularly among patients with chronic ...

About half of people with gout don't have treatments that work. Meet the new gout drugs racing through trials to reach them.

Serum urate levels after a gout flare may not be representative of preflare peaks, with seasonal variations found for both flare rates and serum urate measurements. Study results published in Clinical ...

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 analyzed ...

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 analyzed ...