VICTORIA — Contract talks between the British Columbia government’s unionized public sector workers start today with a union leader forecasting a difficult round of bargaining. B.C. General ...

Dietary measures and medications may help reduce uric acid and manage gout. Gout can occur when blood uric acid levels are too high, causing crystals to form in the toes, feet, and other joints.

Gout, a chronic inflammatory arthritis disease, is characterized by hyperuricemia and caused by interactions between genetic, epigenetic, and metabolic factors. Acute gout symptoms are triggered by ...

Objectives COVID-19 vaccination often triggers a constellation of transitory inflammatory symptoms. Gout is associated with several comorbidities linked to poor outcomes in COVID-19, and gout flares ...

Patients with debilitating gout are being failed by the NHS because of outdated practices which mean they are prescribed only a third of the medication they need, experts claim.

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After 38 days of protest and 212 days of legal battle, the Tamil Nadu Labour Department registered the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)-backed Samsung India Workers’ Union (SIWU) on January 27, ...

The share of American workers in unions edged down in 2024, reaching its lowest level on record, even as the year was marked by a surge in union election filings and several high-profile strikes ...

Hundreds of Federal Trade Commission workers who unionized last year failed to reach a long-term contract with the agency’s outgoing Democratic chair, the aggressive antitrust enforcer Lina Khan, ...

STOCKTON, Calif. — A man was injured Monday morning in a shootout with a Union Pacific Railroad Police officer. According to the Stockton Police Department, it happened around 7:30 a.m. along ...