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Hair Analysis
Hair Loss
Hair Loss From Cancer Treatment
Hair Loss: Should I Take Medicine to Regrow Hair?
Hair Transplant Surgery
Hairy Cell Leukemia Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]
Hammer, Claw, and Mallet Toes
Hammer, Claw, or Mallet Toe: Should I Have Surgery?
Hamstring Muscles
Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Handling Sadness and Yearning After a Major Loss
Hands-Only CPR
Hand-Washing
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)
Harmful Noise Levels
Hay Fever and Other Seasonal Allergies
Head Injuries in Children: Problems to Watch For
Head Injury, Age 3 and Younger
Head Injury, Age 4 and Older
Head Lice
Headache Clinics
Headache Diary
Headache Prevention: Posture and Body Mechanics
Headaches
Headaches
Headaches in Children
Headaches: Avoiding Triggers
Headaches: Finding and Avoiding Triggers
Headaches: Keeping a Diary
Headaches: Managing a Headache
Headaches: Should I Have Imaging Tests to Find Out What's Causing My Headaches?
Headaches: Should I Take Medicine to Prevent Migraines?
Headaches: Should I Take Prescription Medicine for Tension Headaches?
Healing Through Humor
Healing Touch
Health and Safety, Ages 2 to 5 Years
Health and Safety, Birth to 2 Years
Health Claims on Food Labels
Health Problems Associated With Adult Obesity
Health Risks
Health Risks Related to Smokeless Tobacco
Health Screening: Finding Health Problems Early
Health Screenings: Should I Buy Commercial Tests?
Health Tracking Forms and Checklists
Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia (Nosocomial Pneumonia)
Healthwise Self-Care Checklist
Healthy Aging
Healthy Aging: Is It Time to Stop Driving?
Healthy Attitudes Toward Food and Exercise
Healthy Eating
Healthy Eating
Healthy Eating and Older Adults
Healthy Eating for Children
Healthy Eating in Children: Problems Caused by Poor Nutrition
Healthy Eating in Children: Things That Influence Food Choices
Healthy Eating Pays Off
Healthy Eating to Decrease Stress
Healthy Eating: Changing Your Eating Habits
Healthy Eating: Cutting Unhealthy Fats From Your Diet
Healthy Eating: Eating Heart-Healthy Foods
Healthy Eating: Eating Less Sodium
Healthy Eating: Getting Back on Track
Healthy Eating: Getting Support When Changing Your Eating Habits
Healthy Eating: Helping Your Child Learn Healthy Eating Habits
Healthy Eating: Making Healthy Choices When You Eat Out
Healthy Eating: Making Healthy Choices When You Shop
Healthy Eating: Overcoming Barriers to Change
Healthy Eating: Recognizing Your Hunger Signals
Healthy Eating: Resisting Temptation in Social Situations
Healthy Eating: Starting a Plan for Change
Healthy Eating: Staying With Your Plan
Healthy Eating: Taking Calcium and Vitamin D
Healthy Eating: What Will Make It Work for You?
Healthy Habits for Kids
Healthy Habits to Prevent or Reduce Problems From Osteoporosis
Healthy Muscles
Healthy Weight: Find Your Inspiration
Healthy Weight: Make Your Plan
Healthy Weight: Thought-Tracking Journal
Healthy Weight: What Works
Healthy Weight: When Success Slows Down
Hearing Aids
Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss in Babies, Ages 4 to 6 Months
Hearing Loss in Babies, Ages 7 Months to 1 Year
Hearing Loss in Babies, Newborn to Age 3 Months
Hearing Loss in Children, Age 4 Years and Older
Hearing Loss in Children, Ages 1 to 2 Years
Hearing Loss in Children, Ages 2 to 4 Years
Hearing Loss: Should I Get Hearing Aids?
Hearing Protectors
Hearing Tests
Heart and Circulation
Heart Arrhythmias and Exercise
Heart Attack and Stroke in Women: Reducing Your Risk
Heart Attack and Stroke Risk Screening
Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Heart Attack: How to Prevent Another One
Heart Block
Heart Catheterization for Congenital Heart Defects
Heart Failure
Heart Failure and Sexual Activity
Heart Failure Complications
Heart Failure Daily Action Plan
Heart Failure Stages
Heart Failure Symptoms
Heart Failure Types
Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (Diastolic Heart Failure)
Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (Systolic Heart Failure)
Heart Failure: Activity and Exercise
Heart Failure: Avoiding Colds and Flu
Heart Failure: Avoiding Medicines That Make Symptoms Worse
Heart Failure: Avoiding Triggers for Sudden Heart Failure
Heart Failure: Being Active
Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight
Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight Daily
Heart Failure: Compensation by the Heart and Body
Heart Failure: Daily Symptom Checks
Heart Failure: Disease Management Programs
Heart Failure: Eating a Healthy Diet
Heart Failure: How Support Can Help
Heart Failure: Learn to Recognize Symptoms
Heart Failure: Less Common Symptoms
Heart Failure: Limiting Fluids
Heart Failure: Limiting Sodium
Heart Failure: Medicines to Avoid
Heart Failure: Practice Tracking Sodium
Heart Failure: Self-Care
Heart Failure: Should I Get a Pacemaker (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)?
Heart Failure: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)?
Heart Failure: Small Steps to Self-Care
Heart Failure: Support After Your Hospital Stay
Heart Failure: Symptom Record
Heart Failure: Taking an ACE inhibitor or ARB
Heart Failure: Taking Medicines Properly
Heart Failure: Taking Over-the-Counter Medicines Safely
Heart Failure: Tips for Caregivers
Heart Failure: Tips for Easier Breathing
Heart Failure: Track Your Symptoms
Heart Failure: Track Your Weight, Food, and Sodium
Heart Failure: Watching Your Fluids
Heart Failure: When to Act on Your Symptoms
Heart Failure: When to Call for Help
Heart Failure: Your Reason to Be Active
Heart Health: Finding Support for Healthy Changes
Heart Health: Walking for a Healthy Heart
Heart Health: Where Will You Be in 5 Years?
Heart Murmur
Heart Rate Problems: Should I Get a Pacemaker?
Heart Rhythm Problems and Driving
Heart Rhythm Problems: Diary of Symptoms
Heart Rhythm Problems: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)?
Heart Rhythm Problems: Symptoms
Heart Tests: When Do You Need Them?
Heart Transplant
Heart Valve Disease
Heart Valve Problems: Should I Choose a Mechanical Valve or Tissue Valve to Replace My Heart Valve?
Heart Valve Replacement Surgery
Heartburn
Heartburn Symptom Record
Heartburn: Changing Your Eating Habits
Heart-Healthy Diet
Heart-Healthy Eating
Heart-Healthy Eating: Fish
Heart-Healthy Lifestyle
Heat After an Injury
Heat and Cold Treatment for Cancer Pain
Heat or Ice for Low Back Pain
Heat Rash
Heat Waves
Heat-Related Illnesses
Heatstroke Prevention: Acclimating to the Heat
Heatstroke Prevention: What to Wear
Heatstroke: Emergency Symptoms
Heavy Menstrual Periods
Heavy Sweating
Heel Bursitis or Tendon Injury: Preventing Pain
Heimlich Maneuver for Adults and Children Older Than 1 Year
Helicobacter Pylori Bacteria
Helicobacter Pylori Tests
HELLP Syndrome and Preeclampsia
Help for Anger Problems
Help Your School-Age Child Develop Social Skills
Help Your Working Teen Balance Responsibilities and Set Priorities
Helping a Family Member Who Has PTSD
Helping a Loved One After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Helping a Person During a Seizure
Helping Adolescents Develop More Mature Ways of Thinking
Helping Children During Immunizations
Helping Children With Disabilities Stay Active
Helping Kids Handle Peer Pressure
Helping Someone During a Panic Attack
Helping Your Child Avoid Tobacco, Drugs, and Alcohol
Helping Your Child Build a Healthy Body Image
Helping Your Child Build Inner Strength
Helping Your Child Deal With Asthma
Helping Your Child Prevent and Manage Seizures
Helping Your Child Transition Into Middle School or Junior High
Helping Your Child Who Is Overweight
Helping Your Newborn Learn
Helping Your School-Age Child Learn About the Body
Helping Your Teen Become a Safe Driver
Hemochromatosis
Hemochromatosis Gene Test (HFE Test)
Hemochromatosis Genetic Screening
Hemodialysis
Hemodialysis Access: When Is the Right Time?
Hemoglobin Electrophoresis
Hemophilia
Hemophilia: Preventing Bleeding Episodes
Hemorrhagic Stroke
Hemorrhoidectomy for Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids: Which Treatment Should I Use?
Henna Tattoos (Mehndi)
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A and Undercooked Shellfish
Hepatitis A Vaccine: What You Need to Know
Hepatitis A Virus Test
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B and C: Risk of Liver Cancer
Hepatitis B Treatment Recommendations
Hepatitis B Vaccine: What You Need to Know
Hepatitis B Virus Tests
Hepatitis B: How to Avoid Spreading the Virus
Hepatitis B: Postvaccination Test for Immunity
Hepatitis B: Should I Be Tested?
Hepatitis B: Should I Take Antiviral Medicine for Chronic Hepatitis B?
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C Virus Tests
Hepatitis C: Your Risk for Cirrhosis
Hepatitis D
Hepatitis E
Hepatitis Panel
Here's Help: How to Apply a Topical Cream for Your Child
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Eardrops

Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Eyedrops or Eye Ointment
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Oral Medicine
Here's Help: How to Give Yourself Eyedrops or Eye Ointment
Here's Help: How to Insert Your Child's Suppository
Here's Help: How to Use Nasal Spray or Drops for Your Child
Here's Help: Mild Dehydration in Your Baby or Child
Here's Help: Mild Head Injury (Bump, Cut, or Scrape) in Children
Here's Help: Mild Heat Exhaustion in Children
Here's Help: Mild Sunburn in Children
Here's Help: Minor Burn in Children
Herniated Disc Surgery: How Others Decided
Heroin
Herpes Tests
Hiatal Hernia
Hib (Haemophilus Influenzae Type B) Vaccine: What You Need to Know
Hiccups
Hidden Gluten
Hidradenitis Suppurativa
High and Low Blood Sugar Level Record for a Child
High Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy
High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy
High Blood Pressure in African Americans
High Blood Pressure in Children
High Blood Pressure: Checking Your Blood Pressure at Home
High Blood Pressure: Make the Most of Home Monitoring
High Blood Pressure: Nutrition Tips
High Blood Pressure: Over-the-Counter Medicines to Avoid
High Blood Pressure: Should I Take Medicine?
High Blood Pressure: Taking Medicines Properly
High Blood Pressure: The DASH Diet
High Blood Pressure: Using the DASH Diet
High Blood Sugar Level Record
High Cholesterol
High Cholesterol: How a Dietitian Can Help
High Cholesterol: Making Lifestyle Changes
High Triglycerides
High-Dose Vitamin C (PDQ®): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Patient Information [NCI]
High-Output Heart Failure
High-Potassium Foods
High-Pressure Injection Wounds
High-Protein Foods for Wound Healing
High-Risk Pregnancy
High-Risk Sexual Behavior
High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein
Hip Bursitis or Tendon Injury: Preventing Pain
Hip Fracture
Hip Fracture Repair (Hip Pinning)
Hip Fracture Surgery
Hip Fractures: What Increases Your Risk
Hip Injuries, Age 11 and Younger
Hip Injuries, Age 12 and Older
Hip Problems, Age 11 and Younger
Hip Problems, Age 12 and Older
Hip Repair Surgery: Returning Home
Hip Replacement Surgery
Hip Replacement Surgery: How Others Decided
Hip Replacement Surgery: Returning Home
Hip Replacement: When Can You Be Active Again?
Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty
Hirschsprung's Disease
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) Infection
HIV and Exercise
HIV and Fatigue
HIV and Pregnancy
HIV and Weight Loss
HIV Home Care
HIV Infection in Health Professionals
HIV Screening
HIV Testing: Should I Get Tested for Human Immunodeficiency Virus?
HIV Treatment in Children
HIV Viral Load
HIV Viral Load Measurement
HIV: Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
HIV: Giving Support
HIV: Nonprogressors and HIV-Resistant People
HIV: Preventing Infections
HIV: Preventing Other Infections When You Have HIV
HIV: Stages of Infection
HIV: Taking Antiretroviral Drugs
HIV: Tips for Caregivers to Avoid Infection
HIV: Understanding the Test
HIV: Why Healthy Eating Matters
Hoarding Disorder
Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Home Blood Glucose Test
Home Blood Pressure Log
Home Blood Pressure Test
Home Blood Sugar Diary
Home Ear Examination
Home Health Care: What to Expect
Home Lung Function Test
Home Pregnancy Tests
Home Remedies for Bites and Stings
Home Test for Protein in Urine
Home Test for Urinary Tract Infections
Home Treatment First Aid for Cold Exposure
Home Treatment for Herniated Disc Pain
Home Treatment for Second-Degree Burns
Homeopathy
Homocysteine
Homocystinuria
Hormonal Birth Control: Risk of Blood Clots
Hormonal Factors in Erection Problems
Hormone Inhibin A
Hormone Therapy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer (Androgen Deprivation Therapy, or ADT)
Hormone Treatment for Breast Cancer
Hormones
Hospice Care
Hospital Discharge Planning
Hospital Isolation Rooms
Hospital Isolation Rooms
Hospital Patient Advocates
Hospital Policies and Breastfeeding
Hot and Cold Therapy for Arthritis
Hot Flashes and Menopause
Hot Flashes and Night Sweats (PDQ®): Supportive care - Patient Information [NCI]
How a Heart Attack Happens
How a Scrape Heals
How ADHD Affects Your Child
How Adolescent Thinking Develops
How and When to Give Naloxone
How Asthma Develops in Children
How Birth Control Methods Prevent Pregnancy
How Diabetes Causes Blindness
How Diabetes Causes Foot Problems
How Do You Cope With Stress?
How Erections Occur
How Others Manage Diabetes
How Palliative Care Can Help With Goals and Dreams
How Palliative Care Can Help With Pain and Treatment Side Effects
How Palliative Care Can Help With Spiritual Concerns
How Pregnancy (Conception) Occurs
How Reading Helps Language Development
How Secondhand Smoke Affects Your Child
How the Heart Works
How to Calm a Crying Baby
How to Cope When Your Baby Won't Stop Crying
How to Do a Hamstring Stretch While Sitting
How to Do Ankle Pumps
How to Do Calf Stretches While Sitting
How to Do Chair Push-Ups
How to Do Curl-Ups
How to Do Glute Sets
How to Do Heel Raises
How to Do Heel Slides
How to Do Quad Sets
How to Do Short-Arc (Terminal) Knee Extensions While Standing
How to Do Stationary Biking for Knee Rehab
How to Do Step-Up and Step-Down Exercises
How to Do Straight-Leg Raises
How to Do the Bird Dog Exercise
How to Do the Bridging Exercise
How to Do the Hamstring Stretch in a Doorway
How to Do the Hip Abduction Exercise
How to Do the Hip Flexor Stretch
How to Do the Knee Flexion Stretch While Sitting
How to Do the Long-Arc Quad Exercise
How to Do the Passive Knee Stretch
How to Do the Pelvic Tilt Exercise
How to Do the Press-Up Exercise
How to Do the Short-Arc Quad Exercise
How to Do the Single Knee-to-Chest Exercise
How to Do the Single-Leg Balance Exercise
How to Do the Wall Sit Exercise
How to Drain Blood From Under a Nail
How to Find Sodium
How to Get Moving While in the Hospital
How to Get Rid of Medicines
How to Get Up Safely After a Fall
How to Give a Glucagon Shot
How to Give a Heparin Shot
How to Give a Subcutaneous Injection
How to Give an Epinephrine Shot to a Child
How to Give an Intramuscular Injection
How to Give Yourself an Epinephrine Shot
How to Help Someone During a Seizure
How to Help Your Child Prevent a Fall in the Hospital
How to Prevent a Second Heart Attack
How to Put on Compression Stockings
How to Stop a Nosebleed
How to Stop Bleeding From a Head Wound
How to Stop Negative Thoughts
How to Take Birth Control Pills
How to Teach Your Child by Example
How to Track Your Stress
How to Transport a Piece of Tongue
How to Use a Nebulizer With a Mask
How to Use an Incentive Spirometer
How to Wear a Sling
How to Wrap a Sprained Ankle
How You Can Help Manage Your Child's Pain in the Hospital
How Your Body Reacts to Stress
HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Vaccine: What You Need to Know
HPV: Should I Get the Vaccine?
HPV: Should My Child Get the Vaccine?
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Test
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test
Humor Therapy
Hunger, Fullness, and Appetite Signals
Huntington's Disease Genetic Test
Hydrazine Sulfate (PDQ®): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Patient Information [NCI]
Hydrocele
Hydrocortisone for Itching
Hydrotherapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Hyperparathyroidism
Hypertensive Emergency
Hyperthyroidism
Hyperthyroidism: Graves' Ophthalmopathy
Hyperthyroidism: Should I Use Antithyroid Medicine or Radioactive Iodine?
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Types
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Risk of Sudden Death
Hyperventilation
Hypnosis
Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar) in People Without Diabetes
Hypopharyngeal Cancer Treatment (Adult) (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]
Hypospadias
Hypothermia and Cold Temperature Exposure
Hypothyroidism
Hysterectomy
Hysterectomy
Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy: Should I Use Estrogen Therapy (ET)?
Hysterectomy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: How Others Decided
Hysterectomy for Endometrial Cancer
Hysterectomy for Ovarian Cancer
Hysterectomy: Concerns About Sex
Hysterectomy: Returning Home
Hysterectomy: Should I Also Have My Ovaries Removed?
Hysterosalpingogram
Hysteroscopy

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