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Dear Dr. Roach: My grandmother had very advanced Alzheimer鈥檚 disease when she died. My mother, who is now 60, is showing frequent signs of memory loss, but she doesn't want to admit that she has Alzheimer's.

Headlines fool a lot of people. In March 1984, the cover of Time magazine caught everyone鈥檚 attention. It read Cholesterol, Now the Bad News. It reported that cholesterol had been proven deadly and our diet should never be the same again.

Dear Dr. Roach: I have a loved one who is male, 57 and does not use alcohol or drugs. He has been having seizures for the past eight or nine years. In the early years, they were infrequent and very random.

Dear Dr. Roach: I read your recent column on cluster headaches and would like to add a comment. I am a 56-year-old woman and started getting these headaches about 20 years old.

Dear Dr. Roach: Several years ago, my doctor told me to start taking Tylenol PM to help me get to sleep at night and to avoid some neuropathy pain. I have been taking two before bedtime, as directed.

Dear Dr. Roach: About 35 years ago, a renowned Beverly Hills internist prescribed Armour Thyroid for me. At the time, I was burned out in a highly stressful job and would get bronchitis, usually twice a year.

Dear Dr. Roach: I take two Aggrenox daily, plus a baby aspirin every evening, because I had minor strokes about 20 years ago. Vasculitis was suspected, but never was definitively shown through tests. I had no other obvious risk factors.

Doctors have stressed for years it鈥檚 vital to treat all cancers early to increase the chance of cure. But one rogue malignancy rarely obeys the rules.

Dear Dr. Roach: My mother, who is in her late 70s and who always has enjoyed eating meat, can no longer do so. She says that she just has a hard time getting it down. So sometimes she just chews on a piece of meat (e.g.

Dear Dr. Roach: Every night for the past several months, my sleep has been interrupted by a whistling sound when I exhale. I notice it only when I wake up in the early morning. It prevents me from going back to sleep.