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What will be your 2019 new year鈥檚 resolution? Losing weight? Finally deciding to get off the couch and get more exercise? Hopefully, to convince yourself smoking means 20 years less life? These are all healthy ways to start the year.

Dear Dr. Roach: In all the warnings you see for prescription drugs on TV and in print, it seems like a disproportionally high number of them have some tie-in to tuberculosis.

Dear Dr. Roach: Like many men, I have been taking 81-mg aspirin for decades. I聽recently saw a report indicating that not only is it not helpful, but that it actually can increase the risk of internal bleeding and the likelihood of death from cancer.

Dear Dr. Roach: In a recent column, you described symptoms of malabsorption as weight loss, diarrhea and abdominal discomfort. My doctors have never mentioned this as a possible diagnosis.

Dear Dr. Roach: I read that a new drug, Xofluza, has been approved to treat flu. Is there something about it (if known) that might make it more useful than Tamiflu? D.C. Baloxavir (Xofluza) has just been approved by the U.S.

What鈥檚 the most important gift you could give this holiday season? The Greek philosopher Aristotle said that anyone who can鈥檛 or doesn鈥檛 need to partake of society 鈥渋s either a beast or a god.

Dear Dr. Roach: I recently had my yearly physical with my primary-care doctor of 10 years. I am a male, 75, who is five feet, 10 inches tall and weighs 152聽pounds. He sent me my lab results and commented: 鈥淵our A1c (5.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 68-year-old male in good health with a 3.3-centimetre aneurysm in my internal iliac artery. I have no symptoms. It was 1.9 cm eight years ago.

Dear Dr. Roach: I recently have been diagnosed with early prostate cancer. My Gleason score is 7. My urologist has informed me that he doesn鈥檛 think I am a good candidate for surgery, due to having atrial fibrillation.

How far have we come since Egyptians drilled holes in the skull in an attempt to cure a variety of diseases? We鈥檝e seen tremendous advances in brain surgery. But relatively little progress in how to treat concussion.