Dear Dr. Roach • How reliable are home COVID-19 tests? I’ve read one article that said that if you tested negative you could be certain that y…
They hope to gut the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which codified a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion before a fetus can survive outsid…
Dear Dr. Roach • I am told by doctors that the natural immunity your body develops by having had the COVID-19 virus is just as, or even more, …
Gov. Mike Parson and the Republican-led Legislature are seeking to make it easier to shut down Planned Parenthood
Dear Dr. Roach • I’m a 67-year-old male who was recently diagnosed with diabetes. I have had both Moderna doses for COVID-19. I have read all …
The Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday over whether Mississippi can ban abortions after 15 weeks.
Dear Dr. Roach • I am a 69-year-old woman in good health. For a couple of years, I have had increasing trouble sleeping because of having to g…
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Senior clinics, serving patients enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, have opened in East St. Louis, Ferguson, Jennings, Overland and St. Louis.
Q • I’d like to add my name to the people who have had warts disappear after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. I’ve had a wart on the knuckle of m…
Dr. Keith Roach • The rims of my ears both get so sore I can’t even sleep on them. What can I do? — W.W.
Dear Dr. Roach • I have sciatic pain. I do my best to mitigate the pain with exercise. The only painkiller I can tolerate is aspirin. I have b…
Dear Dr. Roach • Does our skin make vitamin D from sun exposure through a car’s windshield? Sometimes I expose my stomach for about 10 minutes…
The chains help create a public nuisance that resulted in an oversupply of addictive pain pills and the diversion of those opioids to the blac…
Dear Dr. Roach • My father died two years ago at age 73. For about six months, he had been experiencing excruciating back pain, which surgery …
Dear Dr. Roach • I am one of four daughters, ages 69 to 61. Our dad is 95 and still lives independently, although one of us four girls comes e…
Q • Thank you for writing about home tests for COVID-19. I developed a headache and sore throat while at work (at a school). Because it took t…
There has been no signal on when the U.S. Supreme Court might act and no formal timetable for reaching a decision.
Dear Dr. Roach • I had COVID-19 in February 2021. I had no fever, no loss of taste or smell, lasted two days with no persistent symptoms at al…
Bayer announced over the summer that it would stop selling the current version of Roundup for home and garden use in U.S. stores, starting in 2023.
Dear Dr. Roach • I belong to a garden club that meets in a local indoor hall. We have one member who has been driving herself crazy worrying a…
That represents a 28.5% jump from the previous year.
The U.S. Supreme Court next month hears a case from Mississippi, whose officials are defending its 15-week limit on abortions and urging the r…
Dear Dr. Roach • I watch a lot of skin-care videos by dermatologists. Sometimes they will have a patient who has a very infected and inflamed …
Only 27% of dentists in Missouri accept Medicaid, according to state data, one of the lowest rates in the country.
Dear Dr. Roach • You recently wrote that minoxidil (Rogaine) provides some benefit for hair growth. My friend broke out in hives after using i…
Thanks to improvement in health woes related to weight, our state improved overall 'obesity' ranking to No. 14, better than last year's No. 10 finish.
From 2003 to 2018, 1,231 of the nation’s 7,624 independent rural pharmacies closed, leaving 630 communities with no independent or chain retai…
