Gout sounds like a disease that shouldn’t exist anymore, especially since it’s referred to as the “disease of kings” because of its connection to royal leaders like Henry VIII, who lived with the ...

Gout is often blamed on overindulgence in alcohol or unhealthy eating, but research suggests genetics plays a much bigger ...

A new injectable drug may help some very sick gout patients who don't get better with usual treatment, according to a new study. The research was designed and funded by the pharmaceutical company ...

Tofu is safe to eat if you have gout. Here's why your diet matters when you have gout, plus other benefits of tofu to consider.

Many of us would love to have something in common with royalty. But getting the “Disease of Kings” is not the way to do it! Gout earned that title centuries ago because it was most common in people ...

Incidence of gout - which is a form of arthritis and causes pain, redness and tenderness in joints - increased at an alarming rate from 1990 to 2017, across the world, mention researchers. Published ...

Vitamin C added little to the urate-lowering effect of standard gout treatment and was clinically ineffective when used alone, according to a small randomized trial published online May 16 in ...

Gout is a type of inflammatory arthritis that causes flare-ups of joint swelling and pain. Kidney disease and gout commonly co-occur and may each contribute to the development of the other. Gout is a ...

Gout is on the rise among U.S. men and women, and this piercingly painful and most common form of inflammatory arthritis is turning out to be more complicated than had been thought. The standard way ...

Eating cherries lowers gout incidence by 35 percent. Sept. 28, 2012— -- If a doctor diagnoses that crushing pain in your big toe as gout, relief just might be a bowl of cherries. A new Boston ...