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Your Good Health: Alzheimer鈥檚 study carried out to test new drug鈥檚 effectiveness
Dear Dr. Roach: My wife has had dementia for more than two years. There is an ad in our local paper for an Alzheimer鈥檚 disease study.
May 4, 2019 6:00 AM
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Your Good Health: See doctor about palpitations after taking Viagra
Dear Dr. Roach: I am a healthy male, age 66, non-smoker, not overweight, who takes no medication.
May 3, 2019 6:00 AM
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Your Good Health: Demerol鈥檚 effects make it a less-used painkiller
Dear Dr. Roach: Have any studies been done on Demerol to check its effect on older people? I know of four people who were out of their minds with hallucinations for three or four days after being given Demerol. B.L.
May 2, 2019 6:00 AM
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Your Good Health: Refeeding syndrome can be life-threatening
Dear Dr. Roach: My brother got very thin (112 pounds and he is six feet tall) from anxiety. When he gets really worked up, he doesn鈥檛 eat. His doctor put him on medication for this, which, she said, would help him gain weight.
Apr 27, 2019 6:00 AM
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Your Good Health: Gastric bypass surgery resulted in osteoporosis
Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 72-year-old woman in fair health. I had strong bones until I had gastric bypass surgery. Within two years, I developed osteoporosis. In 2016 my parathyroid hormone level was found to be elevated.
Apr 26, 2019 4:20 AM
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Your Good Health: Want to be a doctor? Here鈥檚 what to do
Dear Dr. Roach: My seven-year-old grandson has a question: 鈥淗ow can I be a science doctor like you?鈥 Thank you, C.F. Being a doctor is great 鈥 I wouldn鈥檛 change it for any other job 鈥 but it isn鈥檛 right for everyone.
Apr 25, 2019 4:30 AM
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Your Good Health: Increasing nocturia calls for evaluation
Dear Dr. Roach: My husband, 79 years old, is getting up five or six times at night to urinate. The urgent care doctor said he doesn鈥檛 have an infection but doesn鈥檛 know what鈥檚 going on. He is taking Flomax, but that doesn鈥檛 seem to be helping.
Apr 24, 2019 4:20 AM
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Your Good Health: Gallbladder gone, yet new gallstones continue to form
Dear Dr. Roach: My husband had his gallbladder removed many years ago.
Apr 23, 2019 4:20 AM
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Your Good Health: Ignoring symptoms a risky move for senior
Dear Dr. Roach: I鈥檓 a 92-year-old man in better-than-average health. I have had two episodes of blood in my urine in the past two months. I know this isn鈥檛 normal. At my age, I鈥檇 just like to make believe it didn鈥檛 happen.
Apr 20, 2019 6:00 AM
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Your Good Health: When to deal with bone loss debatable
Dear Dr. Roach: I鈥檓 a 50-year-old post-menopausal woman, and my first bone density test came back showing osteoporosis in a portion of my spine and osteopenia in an area of my neck.
Apr 19, 2019 6:00 AM
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