FRIDAY 5/8: Uric Acid Story of Starvation, Mutation, Survival

Science and Philosophy Seminar of the Eastern Shore of Virginia presents “Uric Acid: A 15-Million-Year Story of Starvation, Mutation, Survival, Gluttony, Gout, and Disease Risk.”  The free 90-minute seminar will be held at 12:30 p.m. Friday, May 8, in the Lecture Hall of the Eastern Shore Community College in Melfa. Paul Rochmis will explore how uric acid was key to the survival of our species, but nowadays is known to cause gout and is implicated in the increasing incidence of metabolic syndrome. Rochmis is a retired consulting rheumatologist who specialized in the treatment of arthritis, osteoporosis, and allied disorders.