Copyright 2008 Medical News Today Latest Gout News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/gout/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112620.php If you are planning to go to the Glastonbury music festival this weekend and your prayers for a dry and warm few days aren't answered, you might like to heed BBC reporter Andy Sully's advice and look after your feet, or you could end up with trench foot, as he did last year. The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, better known as Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest music and performing arts festival of its kind in the world. Primary Care / General Practice Tue, 06 May 2008 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106338.php Ipsen (Paris:IPN) announced that the European Commission granted marketing authorisation for Adenuric® (febuxostat) for the treatment of chronic hyperuricaemia in gout. Adenuric® thus pioneers the first major treatment alternative for gout, a severe debilitating disease, for more than 40 years. Gout Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/101082.php For patients with type 1 diabetes, increased levels of uric acid in the blood may be an early sign of diabetic kidney disease - appearing before any significant change in urine albumin level, the standard screening test, reports a study in the May 2008 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. The results raise the possibility that treatments to reduce uric acid might slow the decline of renal function in patients with diabetes. Diabetes Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/100073.php A study led by a team of scientists in Scotland suggests that genes may play a part in increasing one's risk of developing gout, a painful condition that affects the joints. The study is published in the 9 March online issue of Nature Genetics and is the work of researchers based at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, and colleagues from other research centres in the UK and also in Croatia and Germany. Gout