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- 10 ways to control high blood pressure without medication
- 15 simple diet tweaks that could cut your Alzheimer’s risk
- 1st trimester pregnancy: What to expect
- 2nd trimester pregnancy: What to expect
- 3rd trimester pregnancy: What to expect
- 5K run: 7-week training schedule for beginners
- 7 signs and symptoms not to ignore
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- Acetaminophen and children: Why dose matters
- Added sugars: Don’t get sabotaged by sweeteners
- Adjuvant therapy: Treatment to keep cancer from returning
- Adult day service: What you need to know
- Aerobic exercise: Top 10 reasons to get physical
- Aging: What to expect
- Allergy medications: Know your options
- Allergy-proof your home
- Alli weight-loss pill: Does it work?
- Alzheimer’s and dementia care: Making mealtimes easier
- Alzheimer’s and memories: Use mementos as cues
- Alzheimer’s disease: Anticipating end-of-life needs
- Alzheimer’s treatments: What’s on the horizon?
- Alzheimer’s: Dealing with family conflict
- Alzheimer’s: Drugs help manage symptoms
- Alzheimer’s: How to help a caregiver
- Amputation and diabetes: How to protect your feet
- Anger management: 10 tips to tame your temper
- Anti-seizure medications: Relief from nerve pain
- Antibiotics: Are you misusing them?
- Antidepressants for children and teens
- Antidepressants: Get tips to cope with side effects
- Antidepressants: Selecting one that’s right for you
- Are you thinking about suicide? How to stay safe and find treatment
- Arthritis pain: Do’s and don’ts
- Artificial sweeteners and other sugar substitutes
- Asthma inhalers: Which one’s right for you?
- Asthma medications: Know your options
- Asthma: Limit asthma attacks caused by colds or flu
- Asthma: Steps in testing and diagnosis
- Atrial fibrillation and managing stress
- Automated external defibrillators: Do you need an AED?
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- Baby bath basics: A parent’s guide
- Baby naps: Daytime sleep tips
- Baby’s head shape: Cause for concern?
- Back surgery: When is it a good idea?
- Bed rest during pregnancy: Get the facts
- Being assertive: Reduce stress, communicate better
- Belly fat in women: Taking — and keeping — it off
- Birth control options: Things to consider
- Birth control pill FAQ: Benefits, risks and choices
- Bladder control problems in women: Seek treatment
- Bladder control problems: How to seek treatment
- Bladder control: Lifestyle strategies ease problems
- Bladder control: Medications for urinary problems
- Blood pressure chart: What your reading means
- Bone and joint problems associated with diabetes
- Bone health: Tips to keep your bones healthy
- Breast cancer staging
- Breast cancer types: What your type means
- Breast implants: Saline vs. silicone
- Breast lump or breast changes: Early evaluation is essential
- Breast milk storage: Do’s and don’ts
- Breast-feeding and medications: What’s safe?
- Breast-feeding beyond infancy: What you need to know
- Breast-feeding nutrition: Tips for moms
- Breast-feeding twins: Making feedings manageable
- Breast-feeding vs. formula-feeding: What’s best?
- Breast-feeding: How to gauge success
- Breastfeeding and medications: What’s safe?
- Breastfeeding nutrition: Tips for moms
- Burn safety: Protect your child from burns
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- C-section recovery: What to expect
- Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda and more
- Caffeine: How much is too much?
- Calcium and calcium supplements: Achieving the right balance
- Cancer blood tests: Lab tests used in cancer diagnosis
- Cancer causes: Popular myths about the causes of cancer
- Cancer diagnosis: 11 tips for coping
- Cancer fatigue: Why it occurs and how to cope
- Cancer pain: Relief is possible
- Cancer prevention: 7 tips to reduce your risk
- Cancer risk: What the numbers mean
- Cancer surgery: Physically removing cancer
- Cancer survival rate: What it means for your prognosis
- Cancer survivors: Care for your body after treatment
- Cancer survivors: Late effects of cancer treatment
- Cancer survivors: Managing your emotions after cancer treatment
- Cancer treatment for men: Possible sexual side effects
- Cancer treatment myths: Any truth to these common beliefs?
- Car seat safety: Avoid 9 common mistakes
- Carbohydrates: How carbs fit into a healthy diet
- Caregiver stress: Tips for taking care of yourself
- Cast care: Do’s and don’ts
- Chemotherapy and hair loss: What to expect during treatment
- Chemotherapy nausea and vomiting: Prevention is best defense
- Child sleep: Put preschool bedtime problems to rest
- Childbirth classes: Get ready for labor and delivery
- Childhood vaccines: Tough questions, straight answers
- Children and gender identity: Supporting your child
- Cholesterol medications: Consider the options
- Cholesterol-lowering supplements may be helpful
- Cholesterol: Top foods to improve your numbers
- Choosing a birth control pill
- Chronic pain: Medication decisions
- Clear liquid diet
- Cold medicines for kids: What’s the risk?
- Cold remedies: What works, what doesn’t, what can’t hurt
- Colon cancer screening: Weighing the options
- Core exercises: Why you should strengthen your core muscles
- Counting calories: Get back to weight-loss basics
- COVID-19 and your mental health
- COVID-19 in babies and children
- COVID-19 travel advice
- COVID-19 vaccines for kids: What you need to know
- COVID-19 vaccines: Get the facts
- COVID-19 vs. flu: Similarities and differences
- COVID-19, cold, allergies and the flu: What are the differences?
- COVID-19: Long-term effects
- COVID-19: Who’s at higher risk of serious symptoms?
- CRE bacteria: What you should know
- Creatine
- Crying baby: What to do when your newborn cries
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- Daily aspirin therapy: Understand the benefits and risks
- Debunking COVID-19 myths
- Dehydration and youth sports: Curb the risk
- Delaying your period with hormonal birth control
- Dense breast tissue: What it means to have dense breasts
- Depression in women: Understanding the gender gap
- Depression: Supporting a family member or friend
- DHEA: Evidence for anti-aging claims is weak
- Diabetes and dental care: Guide to a healthy mouth
- Diabetes management: How lifestyle, daily routine affect blood sugar
- Diabetes prevention: 5 tips for taking control
- Diabetes treatment: Medications for type 2 diabetes
- Diabetic neuropathy types: Symptoms tell the story
- Diabetic neuropathy: Can dietary supplements help?
- Diagnosing Alzheimer’s: How Alzheimer’s is diagnosed
- Diarrhea: Cancer-related causes and how to cope
- Dietary fat: Know which to choose
- Dietary fiber: Essential for a healthy diet
- Dietary supplements for erectile dysfunction: A natural treatment for ED?
- Dietary supplements for weight loss
- Different types of COVID-19 vaccines: How they work
- Domestic violence
- Domestic violence against women: Recognize patterns, seek help
- Drug-eluting stents: Do they increase heart attack risk?
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- Easy bruising: Why does it happen?
- Eating during cancer treatment: Tips to make food tastier
- Epilepsy and pregnancy: What you need to know
- Episiotomy: When it’s needed, when it’s not
- Erectile dysfunction and diabetes: Take control today
- Erectile dysfunction: A sign of heart disease?
- Erectile dysfunction: Nonoral treatments
- Erectile dysfunction: Viagra and other oral medications
- Exercise and chronic disease: Get the facts
- Exercise and opioids: What to know before you work out
- Exercise and stress: Get moving to manage stress
- Exercise helps ease arthritis pain and stiffness
- Exercise intensity: How to measure it
- Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high blood pressure
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- Fall safety for kids: How to prevent falls
- Family planning: Get the facts about pregnancy spacing
- Feeding your newborn: Tips for new parents
- Female fertility: Why lifestyle choices count
- Fertility preservation: Understand your options before cancer treatment
- Fetal development: The 1st trimester
- Fetal development: The 2nd trimester
- Fetal development: The 3rd trimester
- Fever treatment: Quick guide to treating a fever
- Fight coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission at home
- Fitness tips for menopause: Why fitness counts
- Fitness training: Elements of a well-rounded routine
- Flu shot: Your best bet for avoiding influenza
- Flu shots: Especially important if you have heart disease
- Forgiveness: Letting go of grudges and bitterness
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- Gastric bypass diet: What to eat after the surgery
- Genetic testing for breast cancer: Psychological and social impact
- Germs: Understand and protect against bacteria, viruses and infections
- Get the most out of home blood pressure monitoring
- Get walking with this 12-week walking schedule
- Getting past a weight-loss plateau
- Gout diet: What’s allowed, what’s not
- Gynecological care for trans men
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- HDL cholesterol: How to boost your ‘good’ cholesterol
- Headaches and hormones: What’s the connection?
- Headaches: Reduce stress to prevent the pain
- Health concerns for transgender people
- Health issues for gay men and other men who have sex with men
- Health issues for lesbians and other women who have sex with women
- Health issues for lesbians and women who have sex with women
- Health savings accounts: Is an HSA right for you?
- Healthy body image: Tips for guiding teens
- Healthy sperm: Improving your fertility
- Hearing aids: How to choose the right one
- Heart attack symptoms: Know what’s a medical emergency
- Heart conditions and pregnancy: Know the risks
- Heart-healthy diet: 8 steps to prevent heart disease
- Heartburn or heart attack: When to worry
- Helping baby sleep through the night
- Herbal supplements and heart medicines may not mix
- Herd immunity and COVID-19: What you need to know
- High blood pressure and pregnancy: Know the facts
- High blood pressure and sex: Overcome the challenges
- High blood pressure dangers: Hypertension’s effects on your body
- High-risk pregnancy: Know what to expect
- Home birth: Know the pros and cons
- Home pregnancy tests: Can you trust the results?
- Hormone therapy: Is it right for you?
- How a “growth mindset” can change your path to wellness
- How fit are you? See how you measure up
- How opioid addiction occurs
- How to be happy: Tips for cultivating contentment
- How to take your pulse
- How well do face masks protect against COVID-19?
- Humidifiers: Ease skin, breathing symptoms
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- Inducing labor: When to wait, when to induce
- Infant development: Birth to 3 months
- Infant development: Milestones from 10 to 12 months
- Infant development: Milestones from 4 to 6 months
- Infant development: Milestones from 7 to 9 months
- Infant formula: 7 steps to prepare it safely
- Infant formula: Your questions answered
- Infant massage: Understand this soothing therapy
- Infidelity: Mending your marriage after an affair
- Insulin and weight gain: Keep the pounds off
- Intervention: Help a loved one overcome addiction
- Iron deficiency in children: Prevention tips for parents
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- Kegel exercises for men: Understand the benefits
- Kegel exercises: A how-to guide for women
- Kratom: Unsafe and ineffective
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- Labor and delivery: Pain medications
- Labor pain: Weigh your options for relief
- Language development: Speech milestones for babies
- Learning disorders: Know the signs, how to help
- Living wills and advance directives for medical decisions
- Long-term care: Early planning pays off
- Low blood cell counts: Side effects of cancer treatment
- Low-carb diet: Can it help you lose weight?
- Low-glycemic index diet: What’s behind the claims?
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- Male depression: Understanding the issues
- Male menopause: Myth or reality?
- Marijuana
- Maternity leave: Tips for returning to work
- Meatless meals: The benefits of eating less meat
- Medications and supplements that can raise your blood pressure
- Meditation: A simple, fast way to reduce stress
- Memory loss: 7 tips to improve your memory
- Memory loss: When to seek help
- Menstrual cycle: What’s normal, what’s not
- Mental illness in children: Know the signs
- Menus for heart-healthy eating: Cut the fat and salt
- Mesh in female pelvic reconstructive surgery
- Metabolism and weight loss: How you burn calories
- Migraines: Simple steps to head off the pain
- Mindfulness exercises
- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
- Morgellons disease: Managing an unexplained skin condition
- Mouth sores caused by cancer treatment: How to cope
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- Napping: Do’s and don’ts for healthy adults
- New parents: Getting the sleep you need
- New sibling: Preparing your older child
- Niacin to improve cholesterol numbers
- No appetite? How to get nutrition during cancer treatment
- Nonprescription acne treatment: Which products work best?
- Nutrition for kids: Guidelines for a healthy diet
- Nuts and your heart: Eating nuts for heart health
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- Older drivers: 7 tips for driver safety
- Omega-3 in fish: How eating fish helps your heart
- Organic foods: Are they safer? More nutritious?
- Osteoporosis treatment: Medications can help
- Ostomy: Adapting to life after colostomy, ileostomy or urostomy
- Over-the-counter laxatives for constipation: Use with caution
- Overdue pregnancy: What to do when baby’s overdue
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- Pacifiers: Are they good for your baby?
- Pain medications after surgery
- Paleo diet: What is it and why is it so popular?
- Penis-enlargement products: Do they work?
- Performance-enhancing drugs and teen athletes
- Performance-enhancing drugs: Know the risks
- Personal health records and patient portals
- Piercings: How to prevent complications
- Placenta: How it works, what’s normal
- Planning to travel with atrial fibrillation?
- Postpartum care: What to expect after a vaginal birth
- Prebiotics, probiotics and your health
- Prednisone and other corticosteroids
- Pregnancy after 35: Healthy moms, healthy babies
- Pregnancy after 35: Healthy pregnancies, healthy babies
- Pregnancy and atrial fibrillation
- Pregnancy and COVID-19: What are the risks?
- Pregnancy and obesity: Know the risks
- Pregnancy basics: Quick guide to what’s ahead
- Pregnancy diet: Focus on these essential nutrients
- Prenatal care: 1st trimester visits
- Prenatal care: 2nd trimester visits
- Prenatal care: 3rd trimester visits
- Prenatal testing: Is it right for you?
- Prenatal testing: Quick guide to common tests
- Prenatal vitamins: Why they matter, how to choose
- Preparing your child for menstruation
- Prescription sleeping pills: What’s right for you?
- Prescription weight-loss drugs
- Preventive (prophylactic) mastectomy: Surgery to reduce breast cancer risk
- Prostate cancer prevention: Ways to reduce your risk
- Prostate cancer screening: Should you get a PSA test?
- Pubertal blockers for transgender and gender-diverse youth
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- Quit-smoking products: Boost your chance of success
- Quitting smoking: 10 ways to resist tobacco cravings
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- Reading food labels: Tips if you have diabetes
- Relaxation techniques: Try these steps to reduce stress
- Resilience: Build skills to endure hardship
- Rev up your workout with interval training
- Rheumatoid arthritis pain: Tips for protecting your joints
- Rheumatoid arthritis: Does pregnancy affect symptoms?
- Rheumatoid arthritis: Is exercise important?
- Rheumatoid arthritis: Protect your health with vaccines
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- Safe outdoor activities during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Safety tips for attending school during COVID-19
- Safety tips for returning to school during COVID-19
- Screen time and children: How to guide your child
- Seasonal affective disorder treatment: Choosing a light box
- Seasonal affective disorder treatment: Choosing a light therapy box
- Seasonal allergies: Nip them in the bud
- Secondhand smoke: Avoid dangers in the air
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
- Self-esteem: Take steps to feel better about yourself
- Senior sex: Tips for older men
- Sex after pregnancy: Set your own timeline
- Sex during pregnancy: What’s OK, what’s not
- Sex education: Talking to toddlers and preschoolers about sex
- Sex education: Talking to your school-age child about sex
- Sex education: Talking to your teen about sex
- Sexual health and aging: Keep the passion alive
- Sexually transmitted disease (STD) symptoms
- Sick baby? When to seek medical attention
- Single parent? Tips for raising a child alone
- Sleep aids: Understand options sold without a prescription
- Sleep tips: 6 steps to better sleep
- Smokeless tobacco products
- Snacks: How they fit into your weight-loss plan
- South Beach Diet
- Spitting up in babies: What’s normal, what’s not
- Statin side effects: Weigh the benefits and risks
- Statins: Are these cholesterol-lowering drugs right for you?
- STD testing: What’s right for you?
- Stem cells: What they are and what they do
- Stress and high blood pressure: What’s the connection?
- Stress relievers: Tips to tame stress
- Stress symptoms: Effects on your body and behavior
- Stretching: Focus on flexibility
- Stroke rehabilitation: What to expect as you recover
- Stroller safety: Tips for parents
- Sudden death in young people: Heart problems often blamed
- Suicide grief
- Suicide: What to do when someone is suicidal
- Summer confidence? It’s possible
- Supplements: Nutrition in a pill?
- Support groups: Make connections, get help
- Surgery for stress urinary incontinence in women
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- Tattoos: Understand risks and precautions
- Teen drug abuse: Help your teen avoid drugs
- Teen eating disorders: Tips to protect your teen
- Teen smoking: 10 ways to keep teens smoke-free
- Teen smoking: How to help your teen quit
- Teen suicide: What parents need to know
- Teen texting: Help your teen avoid the risks
- Teens and sex: Protecting your teen’s sexual health
- Teens and social media use: What’s the impact?
- Teething: Tips for soothing sore gums
- Telehealth: Technology meets health care
- Temper tantrums in toddlers: How to keep the peace
- Tension-type headaches: Self-care measures for relief
- Terminal illness: Supporting a terminally ill loved one
- Terms of use for licensed content
- Testosterone therapy: Potential benefits and risks as you age
- Thermometer basics: Taking your child’s temperature
- Thermometers: Understand the options
- Thumb sucking: Help your child break the habit
- Top 5 lifestyle changes to improve your cholesterol
- Trans fat is double trouble for heart health
- Transgender facts
- Treating asthma in children ages 5 to 11
- Treating asthma in children under 5
- Treating COVID-19 at home: Care tips for you and others
- Treatment-resistant depression
- Tricyclic antidepressants and tetracyclic antidepressants
- Triglycerides: Why do they matter?
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- Umbilical cord care: Do’s and don’ts for parents
- Urinary incontinence surgery in women: The next step
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- Vaccines for adults: Which do you need?
- Vagina: What’s typical, what’s not
- VBAC: Know the pros and cons
- Vegetarian diet: How to get the best nutrition
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- Warfarin side effects: Watch for interactions
- Water retention: Relieve this premenstrual symptom
- Water: How much should you drink every day?
- Weaning: Tips for breast-feeding mothers
- Weight loss: 6 strategies for success
- Weight loss: Choosing a diet that’s right for you
- Weight loss: Feel full on fewer calories
- Weight loss: Gain control of emotional eating
- Weight training: Do’s and don’ts of proper technique
- Weight-loss goals: Set yourself up for success
- Weight-loss surgery: Is it an option for you?
- What is aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD)?
- When cancer returns: How to cope with cancer recurrence
- Whole grains: Hearty options for a healthy diet
- Why is your teen so tired?
- Women’s sexual health: Talking about your sexual needs
- Working during pregnancy: Do’s and don’ts
- Wrinkle creams: Your guide to younger looking skin
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