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Your Good Health: Sleeping pills don鈥檛 provide the rest you need
Dear Dr. Roach: Again and again, I read how vital quality sleep each night is. Well, for many years now, I have not gotten any. I have followed many suggestions, from supplements to acupuncture, without success.
Oct 13, 2016 6:00 AM
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Your Good Health: Hydrogen peroxide unsafe as an emetic
Dear Dr. Roach: I鈥檝e heard of people using hydrogen peroxide (three per cent) as an emetic. How dangerous is this practice, and is it effective? B.G. Hydrogen peroxide taken internally is neither safe nor effective for any medical indication.
Oct 12, 2016 4:20 AM
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Your Good Health: Embolism worries lead woman to cut salads
Dear Dr. Roach: I am having trouble controlling my warfarin intake to keep my blood test results within the two-to-three range that my pulmonologist recommends.
Oct 11, 2016 4:19 AM
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Your Good Health: If you can, go for quadrivalent flu vaccine
Dear Dr. Roach: Flu season is approaching, and it is time to review the options available to prevent flu for the 2016-2017 season.
Oct 10, 2016 5:20 AM
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The Doctor Game: Obesity treatment a sign FDA has gone mad
Has the medical world gone completely insane? A new medical device called 鈥淎spireAssist鈥 to treat obesity has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. Its approval is being studied by Health Canada.
Oct 9, 2016 4:20 AM
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Your Good Health: There is no ideal amount of sleep
Dear Dr. Roach: I am a man in overall good health. I am in my early 80s. I see an increasing number of health articles emphasizing the importance of getting a good six to eight hours of sleep per night.
Oct 7, 2016 6:00 AM
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Your Good Health: Patient wants to stop sleep medicine
Dear Dr. Roach: I had sleep apnea diagnosed several years ago and was put on CPAP/BiPAP machines and given 1 mg tablets of clonazepam to help me to sleep each evening. I have been on this medicine since then.
Oct 6, 2016 6:00 AM
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Your Good Health: Surgery can put an end to Cushing鈥檚
Dear Dr. Roach: I was told that I have Cushing鈥檚 disease, which has caused diabetes, high blood pressure, hunger, weight gain and muscle loss. I was never sick before this, and I did not have any of those things.
Oct 5, 2016 4:20 AM
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Your Good Health: Tumour a possibility in sudden sleeplessness
Dear Dr. Roach: I wonder if you can help me. Two weeks ago, I suddenly was unable to sleep. After I got into bed, a warm feeling flowed over my chest and arms, and my heart seemed to speed up.
Oct 4, 2016 4:20 AM
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The Doctor Game: Living will can deliver end-of-life wishes
鈥淚t was the best of times and the worst of times.鈥 That鈥檚 the first sentence in Charles Dickens鈥 book A Tale of Two Cities, about the French revolution. The same could be said today.
Oct 2, 2016 4:20 AM
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