1. Can you take radiation treatment for Parkinsons diease
2. If so can you be around a baby at 4 months
Dr. Joshua’s Answer:
1. Stereotactic radiation is used in some centers to treat parkinson’s disease.
2. Yes, the radiation is external, so you will not be radiating and it is safe to be around a baby

I am a 44-year-old male. My rib cage is chronically sore, but it has gotten worse during the last 3 days where it hurts to take a medium to deep breath. I never smoked, except a few cigarettes in high school. I had a chest x-ray, EKG, and blood tests, and they were all normal. […]

I have a sore on my butt that looks like a pimple when it started out, and it got bigger like the size of a small pancake and its hard around the edges and it has pus in it. It really hurts to sit or walk. Would you have any idea as to what it […]

Exercise Bike and Knee Pain
I am 24 year old female. Height 5′0″ Weight 159 lbs. Former Ballet Dancer of 10 years. Quit sometime around puberty. Recently started using a recumbent exercise bike to try and lose some weight and get in better shape. A short time after I started using it, I started getting knee […]

21 months ago I had 2 blood transfusions, due to a ruptured uterus during pregnancy. 6 weeks ago I had a large boil on my buttocks and was diagnosed with cellulitis. Since then I have had 3 more one after the other. I now have one on my leg and have scheduled to […]

Lung cancer?
I am a former one-pack-a-day smoker. I smoked for twenty years between 1970 and 1990, with a short relapse a couple of years ago. In the past two months I have been experiencing symptoms that my father, my aunt, and a friend described to me, and they all died from lung cancer. My […]

Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
When i started setting my alarm 14 times until the number would change it was because i thought that if i didn’t i wouldn”t wake up. I do it now more and for a longer tine. And if i leave the room at night i have to do it all over again. my frends […]

I have been to a laboratory and have a chemistry test,
the results are as follows:
Blood Glucose 85.09 76.36-116.36 mg/dl
BUN 3l.65 […]

My fiancé was shot in the leg 14 years ago and the doctor at the time decided to leave the bullet in. Now years later he has been having problems with it. Now it is open there is a hole about 3mm it is getting bigger. I have been cleaning it out with H2O2 and […]

Ive been taking Citalopram for a few months however i dont like its side effects so i take it at night before i go to bed. my question is can i benifit from the drug during the following day if i take Citalopram at night?
Dr. Joshua’s Answer:
Yes, you can take Citalopram at night and the […]