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Your Good Health: Positive antinuclear antibody can occur in healthy people

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 58-year-old healthy woman. I am six feet tall, and weigh 130 pounds. My ...

Your Good Health: Immunity begins to wane three months after COVID infection

Dear Dr. Roach: In your recent column about the COVID-19 vaccine, you review the Pfizer vaccine ...

Your Good Health: Treating inflamation due to Crohn's important in COVID era

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 77-year-old man in good health. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease about...

Your Good Health: Chickenpox vaccine not effective at reducing risk of shingles

Dear Dr. Roach: I read your column every day and have seen many questions about the Shingrix ...

Your Good Health: Patient's cough has four possible causes

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 74 and in very good health. I’m active and walk twice daily. Maybe a few ...

Your Good Health: High blood calcium calls for hormone check

Dear Dr. Roach: These days, when vitamin D is recommended at every turn, I need to be sure I am ...

Your Good Health: Special CT scan looks for calcium in arteries

Dear Dr. Roach: You mentioned checking a calcium score to help determine risk of having a heart ...

Your Good Health: Likelihood of getting brain cancer small, even with family history

Dear Dr. Roach: My cousin was in his mid-40s when he died of a brain tumour, more than 10 ...

Your Good Health: No evidence that vaccine ups risk of Bell's palsy

Dear Dr. Roach: In 2002, I had a severe case of Bell’s palsy that lasted eight months. I was ...

Your Good Health: There are treatments, but no cure, for overactive bladder

Dear Dr. Roach: Is there a cure for overactive bladder? R.H. The underlying reason for ...

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