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Your Good Health: Viagra not truly effective in controlling blood pressure

Your Good Health: Viagra not truly effective in controlling blood pressure

Dear Dr. Roach: Short of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, why hasn’t the U.S.
Your Good Health: New shoes a good first step in reducing strong foot odour

Your Good Health: New shoes a good first step in reducing strong foot odour

Dear Dr. Roach: My nephew has foot odour. Even after showering, his feet have a bad odour. His shoes smell bad and have to be replaced often. What is the remedy for this problem? sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Foot odour is caused mostly by bacteria living on your feet.
Your Good Health: Research lacking in therapies for COPD

Your Good Health: Research lacking in therapies for COPD

Dear Dr. Roach: I read your recent column on pulmonary fibrosis. I especially appreciate knowing that there are medications known to slow progression of lung disease, reduce exacerbations and reduce mortality.
Your Good Health: You’re suspectible to HPV at any age

Your Good Health: You’re suspectible to HPV at any age

Dear Dr. Roach: I read your recent column stating that the HPV vaccine is recommended up to age 45. Are people older than 45 years no longer susceptible to HPV? Asking for a 52-year-old friend (who thinks he’s Wolverine). C.F.
Your Good Health: Prostate screening has benefits, risks

Your Good Health: Prostate screening has benefits, risks

Dear Dr. Roach: Every year, I used to get a physical, which included a prostate exam as well as blood tests with PSA. When my doctor retired, I had a hard time finding a new one I liked.
Your Good Health: Eccentric, concentric LVH explained

Your Good Health: Eccentric, concentric LVH explained

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Your Good Health: Tardive dyskinesia — prevention better than medications

Your Good Health: Tardive dyskinesia — prevention better than medications

Dear Dr. Roach: I have a 67-year-old sister who has several medical issues. One of the more uncommon is called tardive dyskinesia. Most people have never heard of this, myself included, until my sister came down with it.
Your Good Health: Psyllium husks ‘safe’ for long-term usage

Your Good Health: Psyllium husks ‘safe’ for long-term usage

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 68-year-old woman who takes no medications. I have had two cases of diverticulitis, neither of which required hospitalization. I tend toward constipation.
Your Good Health: Woman with low weight should see dietitian

Your Good Health: Woman with low weight should see dietitian

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a woman in my 60s and have always had trouble sustaining my weight. I have frequent thorough checkups because I had cancer in the past, but no problems have been identified.
Your Good Health: Cancer-treatment effects on libido worry woman, 68

Your Good Health: Cancer-treatment effects on libido worry woman, 68

Dear Dr. Roach: I have a dilemma. I’m a 68-year-old, sexually active woman just diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer (1.2 centimetre, tumour grade 1, ER and PR positive, HER2 negative, Ki67 at five per cent-10 per cent).