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Your Good Health: Lower dose may mitigate side effects

Dear Dr. Roach: I鈥檓 a mother of a 49-year-old woman with special needs. She has tuberous sclerosis and a touch of autism. She has been on Abilify for more than six years to control the behavioural problems.

Your Good Health: Sales may cross ethical lines

Dear Dr. Roach: I go to a group of excellent dermatologists, but one aspect of their practice bothers me. Often, the doctor will recommend a 鈥減roduct,鈥 which the practice sells. They are not cheap.
Your Good Health: Don't sweat it

Your Good Health: Don't sweat it

Dear Dr. Roach: I hope you will be able to help me with my problem. I am 67 years old and have been sweating profusely from my head for about six years. I believe it is secondary hyperhidrosis. No one in my family has this problem.
Your Good Health: An iron-rich diet is important for treating anemia

Your Good Health: An iron-rich diet is important for treating anemia

Dear Dr. Roach: I鈥檓 84 and was diagnosed in late 2012 with anemia (cause undetermined). Fatigue and dizziness are my major symptoms, and my bone marrow biopsy was negative for cancer.

Your Good health: Blood test screens for bile-duct cancer

Dear Dr. Roach: We recently lost a dear relative to cholangiocarcinoma. He had served in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam. The probable cause of his cancer was from a parasite, a river fluke, common to that region.

Your Good Health: Spasms merit visit to specialist

Dear Dr. Roach: I have been contending with blepharospasm for years. I聽got some relief from Botox for about four years, but then it stopped working and my doctor moved me to Dysport, which was horrible.

Your Good Health: Genetic screening has several benefits

Dear Dr. Roach: In an answer to a previous question, you should have addressed the strong family history of breast cancer. She should be referred to a genetic counsellor to determine whether she needs to be screened for BRCA I or BRCA II. J.T.

Your Good Health: SSRI therapy calls for careful monitoring

Dear Dr. Roach: After being on Paxil for about 15 years, it wasn鈥檛 working anymore. My doctor decreased my dose, and I slowly started Viibryd. The first week I felt great. When I increased the dose of Viibryd, I began feeling sick.

Your Good Health: Medication can mitigate PSP symptoms

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP. We have been told that it is rare and that there is no treatment and no cure.

Your Good Health: Specialist should inform patients of all the options

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