A 62-year-old man was referred for assessment of continuous pain in his left foot that left him
unable to do his work as a driver. He had had gout affecting his big toe for 6 years. This was …

Gout is an increasingly common inflammatory joint disease worldwide, with a prevalence of
1· 4% in the UK and Germany. 1, 2 Although not life-threatening, it is extremely painful and …

In the past 30 years in the developed world, the prevalence of gout has been increasing,
undoubtedly related to social progress, improvement in the well-being of populations …

Sir—In his article on Raphael's fresco School of Athens (Dec 18/25, p 2149) 1 Carlos
Espinel tries to convince us that the figure in the foreground is Michelangelo and that the …

The approval of febuxostat, a non-purine-analogue inhibitor of xanthine oxidase, by the
European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration heralds a new era …

In this issue of The Lancet Global Health, Pascart and colleagues1 report a modelling study
that evaluated the prevalence of gout and hyperuricaemia in French Polynesia. This …

not been vandalised. At Bermondsey station, the concourse is covered by a translucent roof,
which filters daylight into the public spaces and allows rays of sunlight to reach the station …

It usually takes decades to increase the body's urate storage to amounts at which uric acid
crystals precipitate and activate the NLRP3 inflammasome, 1 leading to a first attack of gout …

Most of us know that the gin and tonic, with its quininelaced tonic water, is one outcome of
three centuries of military and medical efforts to overcome malaria. But another disease …