It was, like the meal before it, excellent, but all of it, what with the pints of high-octane pale ale, made for a gouty afternoon.

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However, this panel was making decisions about whether medicines vital to two companies should be on the market, unlike a typical meeting to advise the FDA on what should be required to approve a drug for, say, gouty arthritis.

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While gouty arthritis is diagnosed by aspiration of joint fluid, distinguishing tendinitis versus a sprain versus a fracture requires a clinical examination and possibly an X-ray or magnetic resonance imaging.

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