KUHF-FM, March 8, 2008 Saturday's edition of Medical Discovery News, by UTMB Professors Norbert Herzog and David Niesel, focused on gout. "If you're unfamiliar with gout, that's because until recently it's been a disease of the European aristocracy of centuries past. The causes are everything from obesity, longer life span to the widespread use of diuretics and aspirin," they reported.