Was it from rolling your ankle in the backyard yesterday? Or could it be tendonitis from the extra miles you ran this week? Maybe it’s from gout, a type of arthritis sometimes known as “the ...

Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis that causes severe pain and swelling in one or more of your joints. These attacks happen suddenly when there's a buildup of uric acid, a chemical found ...

Gout was once seen as a “rich man’s disease” and King Henry VIII was a famous sufferer. However, it can affect anyone, and in recent years the number of cases of gout has been on the ...

To further explore the consequences of IL-1 blockade, the investigators developed a new acute gout model by use of intra-articular injection of MSU crystals into the ankle joint of mice.