Gout
A painful medical affliction in which excess uric acid in the blood crystallizes into spiky deposits in the joints.
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Right now, drug developers have high hopes on Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) inhibitors for treating advanced cancers. But a team of scientists has found it also shows huge promise in calming inflammation, and could be used to treat gout and heart failure. -
New research out of Texas A&M University could lead to a simple system using a subdermal implant and a light-measuring computer peripheral to give gout patients real-time readouts of their blood urate levels, helping them avoid flare-ups.