Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO Key Takeaways A uric acid test measures the amount of uric acid in your blood or ...

Doctors reveal simple lifestyle and dietary strategies to manage high uric acid, avoid medications and keep uric levels in ...

Dear Dr. Johnson: Is a blood test for uric acid a foolproof way to diagnose whether a joint problem is being caused by gout? It is not. A person may have a normal uric acid level, but still have an ...

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 ...

High uric acid is a common complaint among most patients and is often detected in several medical tests. Before it develops ...

A Billings Clinic study will begin this month, testing two drugs used in the treatment of gout. The study compares Allopurinol, a Food and Drug Administration-approved drug, to an experimental ...

The current test uses only one of the genes, and it misses many patients at risk FRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new gene test might be able to predict which gout patients will have a bad ...

A new gene test might predict skin side effects from a common gout medication Two genes combined can account for side effect risk in more than 80% of U.S. gout patients The current test uses only one ...

FRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new gene test might be able to predict which gout patients will have a bad skin reaction to a common medication for the condition, researchers say. A newly ...