DEAR DR. ROACH: My primary care doctor has prescribed the medication Evenity for my osteoporosis. I have been on Fosamax for about three years, but my recent bone density scan went down slightly in the osteoporosis area. I am very concerned about the black-box warning of heart attacks and ...
By ANNIE LANE Syndicated columnist Dear Annie: I am a high school senior trying to decide where to go to college, and I feel completely torn. My parents have made it very clear that they want me to study business. They both work in finance, and they keep saying that a business degree ...
By KEITH ROACH, M.D. Syndicated columnist Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 76-year-old woman in what I thought was excellent health. On a recent coronary calcium CT scan that was ordered because of my age and slightly elevated cholesterol, an incidental finding was described in the report as ...
By HELOISE Syndicated columnist Dear Heloise: I read your recent column in the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen. I’m a walker, not a dog owner. I’ve observed that many dog owners do pick up the doo-doo, but then when they think no one is watching, they drop the bag on someone else’s lawn or in the street. Please take the bag home and put it in your own trash. It is only marginally less pleasant to pick up the bag than the unbagged doo-doo! — Hannan, via email Hannan, you’re right! If it’s your dog, it’s your responsibility to pick up the poo. I get many angry letters from ...
BY TERRY and KIM KOVEL Syndicated columnists Majolica, the famous tin-glazed earthenware pottery, gets its name from Majorca (Mallorca), the Mediterranean island off the east coast of Spain. Tin-glazed pottery was brought to Spain by the Moors and spread to Italy as early as the 14th century, then to the rest of Europe. By the 1800s, majolica was a phenomenon in Europe. Potteries throughout the continent were making pieces with brilliantly colored glazes, often with realistically molded flowers, plants, and animals. Collectors seek these 19th-century ceramics by celebrated makers ...
Dear Annie: After 30 years of friendship, raising kids together, losing our parents and a very good mutual friend, traveling together with our families and so much more, my friend told me after the election last year that she had trouble being around "people like me." In other words, I voted ...
