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Your Good Health: Esophagitis diagnosis calls for the cessation of NSAIDs

Your Good Health: Esophagitis diagnosis calls for the cessation of NSAIDs

A person with inflammation of the tissues that line the esophagus should avoid drugs that can cause more damage
Your Good Health: Smoking triples risk for patient with P. vera

Your Good Health: Smoking triples risk for patient with P. vera

Smoking causes several distinct problems for people with P. vera
Your Good Health: 63-year-old debates getting shingles, chicken pox vaccines

Your Good Health: 63-year-old debates getting shingles, chicken pox vaccines

For an older person who has never had chicken pox, getting both vaccines provides the best protection.
Your Good Health: Paregoric is available but seldom prescribed

Your Good Health: Paregoric is available but seldom prescribed

Although reasonably safe and effective when used exactly as directed, this derivative of opium can be inadvertently taken in excess, causing overdoses
Your Good Health: Long-term side effects of sildenafil are very unusual

Your Good Health: Long-term side effects of sildenafil are very unusual

Found in Viagra and Revatio, this drug works by changing the blood flow to certain blood vessels by blocking an enzyme called phosphodiesterase 5.
Your Good Health: Is statin needed to lower cholesterol?

Your Good Health: Is statin needed to lower cholesterol?

It’s always good to take a clear-eyed look at the risks and benefits of a medicine
Your Good Health: Woman with very high BMI should see obesity expert

Your Good Health: Woman with very high BMI should see obesity expert

Physicians specializing in weight loss can prescribe drugs when appropriate for people who already have or are at a high risk for an obesity-related illness.
Your Good Health: Even after surgery, man can’t bend knees without pain

Your Good Health: Even after surgery, man can’t bend knees without pain

The key to improvement is usually gradual exercises to flex the knee.
Your Good Health: Itchiness, pain and desperation after shingles

Your Good Health: Itchiness, pain and desperation after shingles

As a general rule, the older a person is when they develop shingles, the more likely they are to develop postherpetic neuralgia.
Your Good Health: Man with rheumatoid arthritis should continue two-week dosing

Your Good Health: Man with rheumatoid arthritis should continue two-week dosing

Man wants to know if it’s safe to extend time between Humira injections for rheumatoid arthritis