DEAR DR. ROACH: I read with interest the letter from the reader who had shoulder pain and was identified with Parsonage-Turner syndrome. I had never heard of it before. I am a 64-year-old woman with severe shoulder pain. It has persisted for more than five years. In addition to the ball of ...

Let’s say you’re declarer at three notrump and West leads the jack of hearts. You count your sure tricks and see you have seven. If the spades are divided 3-3, you’ll have an eighth, and a successful club finesse would then give you nine. However, these possibilities, though real, are ...

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DEAR READERS: I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Christmas is a very busy time of year filled with strong emotions both happy and sad. The joy and the arguments can each feel louder. Some of you woke up to wrapping paper everywhere, excited kids, pets ...

DEAR HELOISE: My observations with top sheets having unwanted creases in the wide top hem is that they are more readily rectified if the sheet has not yet been used or washed. This way, the unwanted crease fold does not start to wear thin. If the crease comes back after the sheet gets wet, ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: When I was about 6 years old in the early 1940s, my 16-year-old brother was sent to a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients. He was there for 18 months and was a survivor. During this period of time, we (the family) went regularly for chest X-rays and some kind of test that ...