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Your Good Health: Doctors dismiss fatigue in older man due to aging

Your Good Health: Doctors dismiss fatigue in older man due to aging

Fatigue can be caused by many conditions other than aging, even in a 92-year-old.
Your Good Health: Cholesterol in food not a dietary concern

Your Good Health: Cholesterol in food not a dietary concern

Most experts do not emphasize dietary cholesterol when choosing healthy foods.
Your Good Health: Post-surgery 'temper tantrum' may have been delirium

Your Good Health: Post-surgery 'temper tantrum' may have been delirium

As many as 30% of older people will experience delirium with surgery and hospitalization
Your Good Health: The signs of bipolar I versus bipolar II disorder

Your Good Health: The signs of bipolar I versus bipolar II disorder

Bipolar disorder is not uncommon, but is frequently missed as a diagnosis and occasionally diagnosed incorrectly in people who have a different condition.
Your Good Health: Hemoglobin count drops after starting blood thinner

Your Good Health: Hemoglobin count drops after starting blood thinner

For those with a history of colon polyps, a colonoscopy is usually the critical first step after blood loss
Your Good Health: Are nubs in 74-year-old's mouth new teeth?

Your Good Health: Are nubs in 74-year-old's mouth new teeth?

Advice: Supernumerary teeth need to be extracted if they are impacting the existing teeth or causing other complications.
Your Good Health: Many options to try for constipation before pricey pill

Your Good Health: Many options to try for constipation before pricey pill

Advice: For people who don鈥檛 do well with any of the less-expensive (and also tried-and-true) alternatives, Linzess is a good, though pricey, option.
Your Good Health: No supplements to treat alcohol use disorder

Your Good Health: No supplements to treat alcohol use disorder

Many people with problem-drinking benefit from behavioural interventions, and some people benefit from medication on top of psychosocial treatments.
Your Good Health: No evidence to support proton beam therapy

Your Good Health: No evidence to support proton beam therapy

To date, there is no evidence that proton beam therapy for prostate cancer leads to better outcomes than IMRT, so I do not recommend it.
Your Good Health: Prednisone not best treatment for perimenstrual asthma

Your Good Health: Prednisone not best treatment for perimenstrual asthma

Perimenstrual asthma is a well-recognized condition that is nevertheless not well known by most non-experts.