Health

As many as 30% of older people will experience delirium with surgery and hospitalization

Bipolar disorder is not uncommon, but is frequently missed as a diagnosis and occasionally diagnosed incorrectly in people who have a different condition.

For those with a history of colon polyps, a colonoscopy is usually the critical first step after blood loss

Advice: Supernumerary teeth need to be extracted if they are impacting the existing teeth or causing other complications.

Advice: For people who don’t do well with any of the less-expensive (and also tried-and-true) alternatives, Linzess is a good, though pricey, option.

Many people with problem-drinking benefit from behavioural interventions, and some people benefit from medication on top of psychosocial treatments.

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.

Perimenstrual asthma is a well-recognized condition that is nevertheless not well known by most non-experts.

Since having a lung biopsy, my friend has been in constant excruciating pain. What should his next move be?

Taking Fosomax can be dangerous if you can’t swallow properly, since the pill can cause terrible inflammation in the esophagus if it gets stuck there.