March 12, 2007

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Tsai-Fan Yu, 95, Physician, Dies; Helped Alleviate Gout - New York Times

Dr. Tsai-Fan Yu, a physician and researcher at Mount Sinai Medical Center who helped explain a principal cause of gout and evaluated early drugs to treat the disease that are still in use, died on March 2 in Manhattan. She was 95.

It’s really a shame that there’s no quantitative way of measuring pain and pain relief, because if there was, this woman would be near the top of the list of pain removed per person per lifetime.

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