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Your Good Health: For 80-year-old man, urinating is easier after orgasm

Your Good Health: For 80-year-old man, urinating is easier after orgasm

It’s likely that enlarged prostate is reduced by ejaculation, improving urinary flow.
Your Good Health: Periods not regulated after stopping combination pills

Your Good Health: Periods not regulated after stopping combination pills

Doctor likely stopped pills because women who have migraine with aura are at a much greater risk for having a stroke while on estrogen.
Your Good Health: Can citrus bergamot lower cholesterol levels?

Your Good Health: Can citrus bergamot lower cholesterol levels?

While some report good results, large trials needed to prove fruit extract is a safe, effective way to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease.
Your Good Health: Hormone shots cause terrible hot flashes in 67-year-old man

Your Good Health: Hormone shots cause terrible hot flashes in 67-year-old man

Men can get hot flashes, but only when the male hormones are stopped suddenly and completely, which is typically part of treating a hormone-dependent malignancy, especially prostate cancer.
Your Good Health: Avoid drug for incontinence if dementia is a concern

Your Good Health: Avoid drug for incontinence if dementia is a concern

For approximately a decade, I have been taking trospium for incontinence. I would like to know if long-term usage of it could have an effect on dementia.
Your Good Health: Doctors give conflicting advice regarding calcium supplements

Your Good Health: Doctors give conflicting advice regarding calcium supplements

My primary care physician wanted me to stop taking calcium but my endocrinologist says I should continue. What does one do when doctors give conflicting advice? What are the risks if I continue?
Your Good Health: At-home health testing not good for everyone

Your Good Health: At-home health testing not good for everyone

Some home health care tests, such as COVID tests, have had a major and beneficial impact on care. But there is not always a high level of regulation among home-testing service.
Your Good Health: Aspirin less effective than Xarelto in preventing blood clots

Your Good Health: Aspirin less effective than Xarelto in preventing blood clots

Although aspirin is better than nothing, it has been proven in multiple trials to be less effective than Xarelto and similar medicines in people who are at risk for blood clots.
Your Good Health: Appearance of seborrheic keratoses calls for a CT scan

Your Good Health: Appearance of seborrheic keratoses calls for a CT scan

Many people get seb K’s, but the sudden appearance of many of them, particularly when they itch and the underlying skin is inflamed, can herald an internal cancer — especially gastrointestinal cancers.
Your Good Health: X-ray for lower back pain reveals tumour

Your Good Health: X-ray for lower back pain reveals tumour

Most concerning possibility with this finding is a rare condition called retroperitoneal sarcoma