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Your Good Health: Testoterone therapy may be low risk if PSA level zero

Your Good Health: Testoterone therapy may be low risk if PSA level zero

In men who have had successful treatment for prostate cancer, whether by surgery or radiation, testosterone replacement therapy can be considered
Your Good Health: COVID infection can trigger autoimmune disease

Your Good Health: COVID infection can trigger autoimmune disease

There are reports of dramatically increased rates of autoimmune disease, including Sjogren’s syndrome
Your Good Health: Stress of surgery can cause temporary hair loss

Your Good Health: Stress of surgery can cause temporary hair loss

Surgery and the medical condition necessitating surgery are common causes of telogen effluvium
Your Good Health: Estradiol cream can help prevent urine infections

Your Good Health: Estradiol cream can help prevent urine infections

Dear Dr. Roach: I have chronic urinary tract infections. I am 79 and suffer from it often. I frequently go to the bathroom five to six times per night. If I’m lucky, I’ll get two or three hours of sleep.
Your Good Health: Low-risk patients with high CRP don't need statin

Your Good Health: Low-risk patients with high CRP don't need statin

People who are otherwise at low risk for heart disease also have low risk from just an elevated CRP, and thus get little benefit from a statin drug.
Your Good Health: Estrogen risky for ER-positive cancer survivor

Your Good Health: Estrogen risky for ER-positive cancer survivor

Estrogen products are used with extreme caution or not at all in people with a history of an ER positive cancer
Your Good Health: To avoid a faint or fall, sit for a minute after lying, then get up

Your Good Health: To avoid a faint or fall, sit for a minute after lying, then get up

We think of fainting, perhaps based off of media depictions, as a condition of young people, but the older you are, the more likely you are to faint.
Your Good Health: Double tinnitus does not indicate brain damage

Your Good Health: Double tinnitus does not indicate brain damage

Tinnitus with two different frequencies (tones or pitches) is a rare condition
Your Good Health: Pain often gets worse at start of physical therapy

Your Good Health: Pain often gets worse at start of physical therapy

In the meantime, you could try a TENS unit to relieve the pain. A TENS unit — transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation — is a device placed on the skin that send stimulating electrical signals to the nerves.
Five common myths about your fertility

Five common myths about your fertility

Advances in fertility treatment make it possible for most people to conceive