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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.
Your Good Health: Relentless pain occuring after a biopsy calls for a specialist

Your Good Health: Relentless pain occuring after a biopsy calls for a specialist

Since having a lung biopsy, my friend has been in constant excruciating pain. What should his next move be?
Your Good Health: Avoid Fosomax if you can't swallow properly

Your Good Health: Avoid Fosomax if you can't swallow properly

Taking Fosomax can be dangerous if you can鈥檛 swallow properly, since the pill can cause terrible inflammation in the esophagus if it gets stuck there.
Your Good Health: Brain fog lingers after surgeries using general anesthesia

Your Good Health: Brain fog lingers after surgeries using general anesthesia

Studies show spinal anesthesia has a lower rate of post-operative effects on thinking than general anesthesia does, at least in people who were undergoing bladder procedures.
Your Good Health: No risks from working in building with asbestos

Your Good Health: No risks from working in building with asbestos

Many buildings still have asbestos, but the risk to workers in the buildings is very, very small, unless the asbestos is being actively repaired or removed.
Your Good Health: Infusions bring on side effect of severe joint pain

Your Good Health: Infusions bring on side effect of severe joint pain

Severe bone, joint and muscle pain are rarely reported after taking both pill and infusion forms of bisphosphonate drugs
Your Good Health: Benefits of statins outweigh small risk of diabetes

Your Good Health: Benefits of statins outweigh small risk of diabetes

For nearly all people, the benefit of keeping blood pressure and cholesterol under control greatly outweighs the small increased risk of diabetes.