TV presenter Josie Gibson recently revealed she has been diagnosed with the illness that affects around 1.5million Brits - ...

They are also useful in diagnosing osteoarthritis, while joint aspiration can reveal uric acid crystals in people with gout. Understanding what's causing swollen finger joints is the basis for ...

When it becomes a challenge to open a jar of jam, it’s often not the lid that’s the cause – it’s your joints. Arthrosis in ...

She had gout. This is a form of arthritis perhaps usually associated with the cartoonish image of a portly man nursing an oversized toe. Yet it’s anything but funny. ‘Gout is exquisitely ...

During an acute attack of gout, inflammatory mediators are released and vascular adhesion and chemotaxis of leukocytes to the inflamed joint is enhanced. 7 However, for this to have an impact on ...

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 ...

Doctor Edward Dwyer knows gout when he sees it ... which are actually physical uric acid precipitants that develop around joints under the skin and can be disfiguring, can cause a lot of issues ...