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'The disease of kings?' 1 in 20 Australians get gout — here's how to manage it

Written by Andrew Brown, Professor, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW

"The Gout", by James Gillray.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

I awoke one morning late last year to find a bright red bauble at the foot of my bed. It wouldn’t have looked amiss adorning a Christmas tree. But it felt ready to explode. It was my big toe, and this was my first encounter with gout.

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