Dear Dr. Roach: You put my life into disarray as I read your column on the risk of recurrence with respect to breast cancer! I promptly grabbed my retired pathologist husband, and he was floored…

September programs at the Iola Public Library  begin Thursday, Sept. 5 with with “The A,B,C’s of A, B, & O Blood Types.” Allen County Regional Hospital’s Director of Laboratory Services, Michel Meyers, speaks about the…

Dear Dr. Roach: We are very fond of our family doctor. I was in to see him the other day, and it came up in conversation that he was going to be getting married this…

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a healthy 70-year-old woman. The only prescription medication I take is for dry eyes. I recently visited my new primary physician for the first time, and she had me do…

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 74-year-old female who smoked a pack a day for 40-plus years, having quit smoking about 18 years ago. As a precaution, I asked my primary doctor to order a screening…

Humboldt Fitness Center director Kelli Frazell, center, cuts a ribbon to officially open the facility Tuesday afternoon. She’s surrounded by the center’s board members, Humboldt Chamber of Commerce members, B&W Trailer Hitch officials, fitness center…

Dear Dr. Roach: How are sleep apnea, sighing and heart failure related? Recently, I was told that I have severe sleep apnea and that I must use a CPAP machine. I have noticed that during…

Dear Dr. Roach: Recently, some friends and I thought about taking OTC motion sickness tabs every day, even when not boating. Then, we’d always be ready for any motion sickness situations. It seems like a…

KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Susan Haynes used to have panic attacks seven times a day. Sometimes, she would fall out of her chair. Sometimes, she would stop breathing. “I could just fall down, just collapse…

Gov. Cuomo did New York’s women a vital service last week signing legislation creating a new maternal mortality review board, a panel of experts that will examine why so many mothers still die from pregnancy-related…