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Your Good Health: 'Bone death' in jaw often linked with medications

Your Good Health: 'Bone death' in jaw often linked with medications

Osteonecrosis of the jaw is a serious condition involving poor blood flow that results in death of the bone cells in the jaw
Your Good Health: To solve parasite mystery, find source of exposure

Your Good Health: To solve parasite mystery, find source of exposure

Documenting travel history and contact with other people or environments where a parasite may be picked up is paramount, as is a careful skin exam
Your Good Health: COVID vaccine safe for transplant recipients

Your Good Health: COVID vaccine safe for transplant recipients

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an organ transplant recipient who has received both COVID vaccinations and both boosters.
Your Good Health: Try ablation of nasal nerves only if meds don't work

Your Good Health: Try ablation of nasal nerves only if meds don't work

Any relatively new treatment has the potential for undiscovered side effects that show up only after many people have used it for a prolonged period of time
Your Good Health: Turmeric can increase risk in patients with blood disorders

Your Good Health: Turmeric can increase risk in patients with blood disorders

Unfortunately, any medical intervention runs the risk of causing an untoward effect
Your Good Health: Tylenol's risk to hearing is low

Your Good Health: Tylenol's risk to hearing is low

Only about 2% of people taking these drugs at high levels for a prolonged period will develop hearing loss due to the medication
Your Good Health: Air bubble in IV too small to cause harm

Your Good Health: Air bubble in IV too small to cause harm

Minimum amount of air that is likely to cause symptoms is a hundred times what you'd find in an IV tube
Your Good Health: Cholesterol, LDL not only factors in statin decision

Your Good Health: Cholesterol, LDL not only factors in statin decision

The benefit of a statin depends on how high the underlying risk is for the person
Your Good Health: Persistent symptoms more common in COVID compared to flu

Your Good Health: Persistent symptoms more common in COVID compared to flu

It may be that people are just more attuned to persistent symptoms than they were after other infections in the days before the pandemic
Your Good Health: Reaction to corn, oats could be an allergy

Your Good Health: Reaction to corn, oats could be an allergy

Food allergies have highly variable symptoms, depending on the person and the food they are allergic to