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Your Good Health: Runner suffers severe leg pain, foot drop

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 64-year-old woman. I have been an avid exerciser and runner since 1980. I am in excellent health and take no medications, except for a low-dose rheumatoid arthritis medication, methotrexate.

Your Good Health: Ibuprofen, cold packs can ease pseudogout

Dear Dr. Roach: In your recent column on pseudogout, you didn鈥檛 discuss treatment. I had it this year, and after a while it went away. It was very painful. Is there any medication to help it? D.B.

The Doctor Game: Do you really need that antibiotic?

What would it be like living in a world without antibiotics, where a simple infection could kill you? It could happen, as increasing numbers of bacteria are resistant to antibiotics.

Your Good Health: Posterior pain has patient perplexed

Dear Dr. Roach: I hope you can help me.

Your Good Health: Benefits of red yeast rice debatable

Dear Dr. Roach: I read the letter from the man who took niacin to lower his cholesterol, which resulted in diabetes. I am not sure if you are aware that red yeast rice, which I have been taking, is supposed to reduce cholesterol.

Your Good Health: Colonoscopy prep can have effects on symptoms of IBS

Dear Dr. Roach: I have suffered for several years now from irritable bowel syndrome. I believe my symptoms began after back-to-back bouts of food poisoning, possibly norovirus.

Single moms most sleep-deprived, study finds

Who are the most sleep-deprived people? U.S. researchers say the answer is clear: single mothers. A new report from the U.S.
Looking to eat less meat?

Looking to eat less meat?

Prominent vegans share their passion and practices in a growing food movement

Your Good Health: Specialist clarifies PSA testing

Dear Dr. Roach: I read your recent column on PSA screening for prostate cancer.

The Doctor Game: Potassium like sex and money

Can you have too much of anything these days? Surely, by now, you know that you can get too much sugar, too much salt and too many calories, to name a few things. But you can also get into trouble by getting too little of some nutrients.