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Dear Dr. Roach: I read on the internet that you should take your blood-pressure medicine at night. I just recently started taking medicine for my blood pressure and my instructions were to take it first thing in the morning.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 75-year-old man, five feet, three inches tall, weighing 123 pounds with a blood pressure of 110/60. The only known ailment I have is hypothyroidism, which is being treated.

Dear Dr. Roach: A few months ago, my husband was told that his prostate cancer has returned. He now has Stage 4 cancer.

Dear Dr. Roach: I recently read that tuberculosis kills more people than any other infectious illness. Can people who have no symptoms spread this disease? R.R. Tuberculosis, an ancient disease, is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am having a serious, lengthy battle with cellulitis on my lower leg. For nearly three months, nothing any doctor has recommended or prescribed has worked.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 83-year-old African American woman who is contemplating having a neurostimulator implanted in my back. I am a non-insulin diabetic, and my last A1C was 6.7. I had a laminectomy with fusion 15 years ago.

Dear Dr. Roach: There are a lot of flu cases in my state, and people are very worried.

Dear Dr. Roach: A friend told me that her husband, who is 80, is claiming that the French eat a lot of butter, cream, cheese, pastries and red meat, and have the lowest rate of heart disease in the world.

Dear Dr. Roach: My brother is 65 years old and was spitting up when eating. He went for an endoscopy yesterday and was diagnosed with Grade 3 esophagitis. He has been drinking five glasses of wine daily for years.

Dear Dr. Roach: What are the known causes of leukemia? B.B. 鈥淟eukemia鈥� comes from the Greek roots for 鈥渨hite blood鈥� because an excess of white blood cells can be seen even without a microscope in a test tube of spun whole blood.