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Gout Affects Young People Too
“You’re too young to have gout.” That’s how one physician responded to Gary Ho when, at age 24, he began developing symptoms of the disease....
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The Chronic Pain that Nobody Talks About
September is Pain Awareness Month, a chance to spotlight one of America’s least-recognized causes of chronic pain: gout.
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Gout’s Excruciating, But It Doesn’t Get The Attention It Deserves
More than 9 million people in the United States face a debilitating form of inflammatory arthritis known as gout.
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Fighting Gout Includes Addressing Racial, Cultural Disparities
Gout is a painful, even debilitating, arthritic condition afflicting more than 9 million Americans.
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Gout Patients’ Journey Should Motivate Us to Act
Learning to live with gout looks different for every patient. But as a recent survey from the Alliance for Gout Awareness found, most patients experience...
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The Most Pernicious Obstacle to Care: Stigma
Even as patients, medical professionals and advocacy organizations work to break down policy barriers in health care access, the biggest barrier of all is often...
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Federal Approvals Open Doors to New Treatments
Thanks to a series of recent FDA approvals, patients of all ages will have the opportunity to benefit from several medical innovations. A Different COVID-19...
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What Men Should Know about Gout
There are more than one hundred types of arthritis, but gout is among the most common and the most painful. Gout is caused by too...
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Narrowing the Gout Information Gap
There’s an ongoing research boom and more treatments than ever before, yet the battle against gout continues to be hampered by an information gap. Now,...
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Countering a Lack of Information and Loss of Hope for Gout Patients
After years of searching for reliable information and a network of fellow gout patients to share his experience, Gary Ho launched his own online support...
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Gout Treatment Research Takes Off
Painful and challenging to live with, gout has become the focus of a new surge in research. In just the last few years, more than...
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Rising Gout & Kidney Disease Rates Underscore Treatment Issues
Gout and kidney disease can be a lethal combination. Kidney disease alone is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, and one study reports...
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