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Your Good Health: Multiple myeloma patients can live longer with treatment

Your Good Health: Multiple myeloma patients can live longer with treatment

Although myeloma is generally considered incurable, new treatments have greatly improved the prognosis.
Your Good Health: Low blood sodium levels could be due to antidiuretic condition

Your Good Health: Low blood sodium levels could be due to antidiuretic condition

Woman with low blood sodium level should have an evaluation before any treatment is started.
Your Good Health: Older adults don鈥檛 always need a geriatrician

Your Good Health: Older adults don鈥檛 always need a geriatrician

A geriatrician is most valuable in older patients who have multiple medical problems, patients who take a lot of medications or patients whose functioning has recently deteriorated.
Your Good Health: Patient with hydrocephalus doesn鈥檛 want a shunt

Your Good Health: Patient with hydrocephalus doesn鈥檛 want a shunt

A shunt significantly improves symptoms for about 75% of people with hydrocephalus. Shunt blockages and infections are possible complications.
Your Good Health: PSA score rises while on meds, causing confusion

Your Good Health: PSA score rises while on meds, causing confusion

Finasteride and dutasteride shrink the prostate and reduce the likelihood of prostate cancer.
Your Good Health: High results in urinalysis don鈥檛 necessarily call for treatment

Your Good Health: High results in urinalysis don鈥檛 necessarily call for treatment

It is primarily symptoms that drive the decision to treat a patient, and with symptoms gone, treatment isn鈥檛 necessary.
Your Good Health: Surgery for hernia could be riskier than living with it

Your Good Health: Surgery for hernia could be riskier than living with it

In general, doctors recommend surgical repair for symptomatic hernias, as pain tends to gradually increase.
Your Good Health: Weight gain, tight pants can compress nerves

Your Good Health: Weight gain, tight pants can compress nerves

If numbness and sharp pains persist, it鈥檚 important to redo an exam and make sure of the diagnosis.
Your Good Health: Study on tattoos and lymphoma doesn鈥檛 hold up

Your Good Health: Study on tattoos and lymphoma doesn鈥檛 hold up

Professionally done tattoos have little risk when the aftercare instructions are followed, but there are still some health risks.
Your Good Health: Fosamax an appropriate drug for osteopenia

Your Good Health: Fosamax an appropriate drug for osteopenia

Severe musculoskeletal pain can occur days or months (sometimes years) after starting the medicine.