Adult general health
Cancer screening
- Biopsy
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Breast cancer screening
- Breast ultrasound
- CA 125 test
- CA 19-9 test
- Cancer screening
- Cervical cancer screening tests
- Colon and rectal cancer screening
- Colon polyps
- Colonoscopy
- Lowering the risk of breast cancer
- Lowering the risk of colon and rectal cancer
- Lung cancer screening
- Mammogram
- Ovarian cancer screening
- Pelvic exam
- Prostate biopsy
- Prostate cancer screening (PSA tests)
Complementary and alternative medicine
- Acupuncture
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- Massage
- Meditation
Cost of healthcare
- Brand versus generic medicines
- Coping with high drug prices
Dental health in adults
- Dental anesthesia
- Dry mouth
- Tooth decay in adults
Genetic testing
Injuries, first aid, and CPR for adults
- Abusive head injury in babies and children
- Black eye
- CPR for adults
- Cervical collars for adults
- Chemical eye injury
- Chemical ingestion in adults
- Chemical skin burn
- Chest trauma
- Coccyx injury
- Common toe injuries
- Deciding where to go for care
- Electrical burns
- Flank pain
- Fracture in adults – Discharge instructions
- Frostbite
- Heat stroke
- How to give naloxone
- How to use a knee brace
- How to use a shoulder sling
- How to use a walker
- Hypothermia
- Knee sprain
- Low back pain – Discharge instructions
- Motor vehicle crash – Discharge instructions
- Mouth and dental injuries in adults
- Nosebleeds
- Removing objects stuck in the eye
- Removing objects stuck in the rectum
- Removing objects stuck in the skin
- Removing objects stuck in the vagina
- Removing staples
- Removing stitches
- Shoulder pain
- Skin glue for minor cuts
- Smoke inhalation
- Smoke inhalation – Discharge instructions
- Sprains
- Stitches and staples
- Surgery to fix a broken bone
- Surgery to fix a broken bone – Discharge instructions
- Swallowed objects
- Taking care of bruises
- Taking care of cuts, scrapes, and puncture wounds
Leaving the hospital
- Activity level
- Going home from the hospital
- Hazardous medicine safety at home
- Infusion pumps
- Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS)
Managing medicines
- Acetaminophen poisoning
- Brand versus generic medicines
- Coping with high drug prices
- Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs)
- Drug allergy
- How to take anticoagulants safely
- Managing acute pain at home
- Managing dizziness from your medicines
- Managing higher risk of falls from your medicines
- Managing low blood pressure from your medicines
- Managing nausea from your medicines
- Managing poor appetite from your medicines
- Medicines after a heart attack
- Medicines after an ischemic stroke
- Medicines for Parkinson disease
- Medicines for angina
- Medicines for asthma
- Medicines for atrial fibrillation
- Medicines for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Medicines for high blood pressure
- Medicines for osteoporosis
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Oral steroid medicines
- Prescription drug misuse
- Routine physical for adults
- Serotonin syndrome
- Side effects from medicines
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Taking medicines when you're older
- Taking opioids safely
- What you should know about antibiotics
- Why taking your medicine as prescribed is important
Movement and exercise
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Controlling your blood pressure through lifestyle
- Exercise and heart failure
- Exercise and movement
- Exercise and movement as you get older
- Exercise and other activities to help with depression
- Exercises after open heart surgery
- Exercises for sciatic pain
- Neck exercises
- Physical activity for people with arthritis
- Walking for health
Safety
- Acetaminophen poisoning – Discharge instructions
- Activity level
- How to dispose of needles and other sharps
- Intimate partner violence
- Lowering the risk of a central line infection
- Lowering the risk of a surgical site infection
- Managing higher risk of falls from your medicines
- Medication safety
- Staying safe in the hospital
- Staying safe in the sun
Smoking, alcohol, and substance use
- Alcohol and your health
- Smokeless tobacco
Substance use and misuse
- Alcohol poisoning
- Alcohol use disorder – Discharge instructions
- Alcohol use – When is drinking a problem?
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Blood ethanol concentration
- Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome
- Cannabis use disorder
- Chemical ingestion in adults
- Cocaine use disorder
- How to give naloxone
- Managing acute pain at home
- Medical cannabis
- Opioid overdose
- Opioid use disorder
- Opioid withdrawal – ED discharge instructions
- Prescription drug misuse
- Quitting smoking for adults
- Smokeless tobacco
- Substance use disorder
- Taking opioids safely
- Treatment for substance use disorder
- Vaping
Travel health
- Activity during pregnancy
- Campylobacter infection
- Dengue fever
- E. coli diarrhea
- Ebola
- Enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever
- Food poisoning
- High-altitude illness
- Jet lag
- Listeria infection
- Malaria
- Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- Staying healthy when you travel
- Travelers' diarrhea
- Vaccines for travel
- Zika virus infection
Where to go for care
- Deciding where to go for care
Allergies and asthma
Allergies
- Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
- Allergy shots
- Allergy skin testing
- Contrast allergy
- Cough in adults
- Drug allergy
- Environmental allergies in adults
- Environmental allergies in children
- Patch testing
- Penicillin allergy
- Sulfonamide allergy
Anaphylaxis
- Anaphylaxis
- Anaphylaxis – Discharge instructions
- Angioedema
- Hereditary alpha-tryptasemia
- How to give epinephrine
Asthma
- Asthma action plan for adults
- Asthma action plan for children
- Asthma and pregnancy
- Asthma in adults
- Asthma in adults – Discharge instructions
- Asthma in children
- Asthma in children – Discharge instructions
- Avoiding asthma and allergy triggers
- Exercise-induced asthma
- How to use a nebulizer
- How to use a peak flow meter
- How to use your child's dry powder inhaler
- How to use your child's metered dose inhaler
- How to use your dry powder inhaler (adults)
- How to use your metered dose inhaler (adults)
- How to use your soft mist inhaler (adults)
- Inhaled corticosteroid medicines
- Medicines for asthma
- Oral steroid medicines
- Spirometry
- Wheezing in adults
Dermatitis
- Contact dermatitis
- Eczema (atopic dermatitis)
- Intertrigo
- Itchy skin
- Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac
- Seborrheic dermatitis
- Topical corticosteroid medicines
Food allergy
- Alpha-gal syndrome
- Egg allergy
- Food allergy
- Milk allergy
- Peanut, tree nut, and seed allergy
- Seafood allergy
- Soy allergy
- Wheat allergy
Hives and angioedema
- Angioedema
- Angioedema caused by ACE inhibitor medicines
- Chronic hives
- Hives
- Inducible hives
Insect bites and stings
- Allergy to insect stings
- Alpha-gal syndrome
- Hereditary alpha-tryptasemia
- Insect bites and stings
- Spider bites
Anesthesia
Anesthesia for surgery
- Anesthesia for cesarean birth
- Anesthesia for elective eye surgery
- Anesthesia in adults
- Anesthesia in children
- Continuous infusion pain pump
- Dental anesthesia
- Epidural injection
- Fasting before surgery
- General anesthesia in adults – Discharge instructions
- General anesthesia in children – Discharge instructions
- Monitored anesthesia care
- Monitored anesthesia care – Discharge instructions
- Nausea and vomiting after surgery
- Nerve blocks
- Patient-controlled analgesia
- Questions to ask if you are having surgery or a procedure
- Sedation for procedures in adults
- Sedation for procedures in adults – Discharge instructions
- Sedation for procedures in children – Discharge instructions
Side effects
- Nausea and vomiting after surgery
Autoimmune disease
Ankylosing spondylitis
Bullous pemphigoid
Lupus
- Antinuclear antibodies
- Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs)
- Lupus
- Lupus and kidney disease
- Lupus and pregnancy
- Melasma
Myositis
- Antinuclear antibodies
- Dermatomyositis
- Polymyositis
Psoriatic arthritis
- Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs)
- Psoriatic arthritis in adults
- Psoriatic arthritis in children
Rheumatoid arthritis
- Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs)
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Oral steroid medicines
- Physical activity for people with arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy
Sjögren's syndrome
Vasculitis
- Behçet syndrome
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis
- Vasculitis
Blood disorders
Anticoagulation
- Anticoagulant medicines – Uses and kinds
- How to give an anticoagulant shot
- How to take anticoagulants safely
- Managing increased bleeding risk
- Partial thromboplastin time test
- Prothrombin time and INR (PT/INR)
- Warfarin and your diet
Blood clots in the legs or lungs
- Angiography
- D-dimer test
- Deep vein thrombosis (blood clot in the arm)
- Deep vein thrombosis (blood clot in the leg)
- Deep vein thrombosis – Discharge instructions
- IVC filter placement
- Intermittent pneumatic compression devices
- Lowering the risk of a blood clot
- Pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung)
- Pulmonary embolism – Discharge instructions
Blood donation and transfusion
- Blood donation (giving blood)
- Blood transfusion
- Donating bone marrow or blood stem cells
- Intravenous immune globulin (IVIG)
- Platelet and plasma donation
- Therapeutic phlebotomy
Blood tests
- Blood type test
- Clotting factor blood test
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Eosinophil count
- Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
- Ferritin test
- Hemoglobin and hematocrit tests
- Immunoglobulin blood test
- Neutrophil count
- Platelet count
- White blood cell differential
Bone marrow transplant
- Allogeneic bone marrow transplant
- Autologous bone marrow transplant
- Donating bone marrow or blood stem cells
Clotting disorders
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Factor V Leiden
- Hemophilia
- Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia – Discharge instructions
- Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)
- Sickle cell disease pain in children – Discharge instructions
- Therapeutic apheresis
- Thrombocytosis
- Von Willebrand disease
Hemochromatosis
Leukemia
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
- Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
- Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
- Hairy cell leukemia
- Leukemia in adults
- Leukemia in children
- Tumor lysis syndrome
Lymphoma and Hodgkin disease
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Diffuse large B cell lymphoma
- Follicular lymphoma
- Hodgkin lymphoma in adults
- Hodgkin lymphoma in children
- Lymph node biopsy
- Lymph node biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Lymphoma
- Splenic marginal zone lymphoma
- Swollen lymph nodes in adults
- Tumor lysis syndrome
- Waldenström macroglobulinemia
Multiple myeloma
- AL amyloidosis
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Bone metastases
- Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
- Multiple myeloma
Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
Neutropenia
- Neutropenia
- Neutropenia and fever in people being treated for cancer
Porphyrias
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Erythropoietic protoporphyria and X-linked protoporphyria
- Porphyria cutanea tarda
- Porphyrias
Red blood cell disorders
- Anemia of inflammation (anemia of chronic disease)
- Anemia overview
- Aplastic anemia
- Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
- Beta thalassemia
- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
- Good food sources of iron
- Iron studies panel
- Low iron
- Low iron in adults – Discharge instructions
- Pernicious anemia
- Polycythemia vera
- Sickle cell disease
- Sickle cell disease pain in adults – Discharge instructions
- Sickle cell trait
- Therapeutic phlebotomy
- When your child has sickle cell disease
White blood cell disorders
- IgA deficiency
- Lymphocytosis
Bones, joints, and muscles
Arthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs)
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Oral steroid medicines
- Osteoarthritis
- Physical activity for people with arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy
Back and neck pain
- Anterior cervical spinal fusion
- Anterior cervical spinal fusion – Discharge instructions
- Back exercises
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Cervical spinal stenosis
- Degenerative disc disease
- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
- Do I need an X-ray (or other test) for low back pain?
- Exercises for sciatic pain
- Herniated disc
- Laminectomy
- Laminectomy – Discharge instructions
- Low back pain in adults
- Low back pain – Discharge instructions
- Lumbar spinal stenosis
- Neck pain
- Posterior cervical spinal fusion
- Posterior cervical spinal fusion – Discharge instructions
- Radiculopathy of the neck and back (including sciatica)
- Radiculopathy of the neck and back (including sciatica) – Discharge instructions
- Upper back pain
- Whiplash
Bone and joint surgery
- Amputation
- Amputation of the foot or toe
- Amputation of the foot or toe – Discharge instructions
- Amputation – Discharge instructions
- Amputation, below-the-knee
- Amputation, below-the-knee – Discharge instructions
- Anterior cervical spinal fusion
- Anterior cervical spinal fusion – Discharge instructions
- Arthrocentesis
- Arthroscopy
- Arthroscopy – Discharge instructions
- Hip replacement
- Hip replacement – Discharge instructions
- Knee arthroscopy
- Knee arthroscopy – Discharge instructions
- Knee replacement
- Knee replacement – Discharge instructions
- Laminectomy
- Laminectomy – Discharge instructions
- Pin, plate, or screw removal
- Posterior cervical spinal fusion
- Posterior cervical spinal fusion – Discharge instructions
- Rotator cuff repair
- Rotator cuff repair – Discharge instructions
- Shoulder arthroscopy
- Shoulder arthroscopy – Discharge instructions
- Shoulder replacement
- Surgery to fix a broken bone
- Surgery to fix a broken bone – Discharge instructions
- Thoracic or lumbar spinal fusion
- Thoracic or lumbar spinal fusion – Discharge instructions
- Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty
Bone cancer
- Bone biopsy
- Bone biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Bone cancer
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Chondrosarcoma
- Ewing sarcoma
Bone health
- Bone density testing
- Bone scan
- Calcium and vitamin D for bone health
- Calcium blood test
- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
- Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
- Hip fracture
- Hypercalcemia
- Hypocalcemia
- Kyphosis in adults
- Medicines for osteoporosis
- Osteoporosis and osteopenia (low bone mass)
- Paget disease of bone
- Vertebral compression fracture
- Vitamin D deficiency
Compartment syndrome
- Acute compartment syndrome
- Chronic exertional compartment syndrome
- Surgery for acute compartment syndrome – Discharge instructions
Complex regional pain syndrome
- Complex regional pain syndrome
Connective tissue disorders
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Marfan syndrome
Fractures
- Ankle fracture
- Bone metastases
- Clavicle fracture
- Coccyx injury
- Elbow fracture
- Facial fractures
- Femur fracture
- Finger fracture
- Forearm fracture
- Fracture in adults – Discharge instructions
- Fractures in adults
- Fractures in children
- Hand fracture
- Head injury observation in children
- Heel or foot fracture
- Hip fracture
- Hip fracture in adults – Discharge instructions
- How to care for a splint
- How to care for your cast
- How to care for your child's cast
- How to use crutches
- Lower leg fracture
- Neck fracture
- Nose fracture
- Patella fracture
- Pelvic fracture
- Rib injury in adults
- Setting a broken bone in adults
- Shoulder or upper arm fracture
- Skull fractures
- Stress fracture
- Toe fracture
- Vertebral compression fracture
- Wrist fracture
- X-ray
Gout
- Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease
- Gout
Heel and foot pain
- Achilles tendon injury
- Bunion
- Exercises for plantar fasciitis
- Foot sprain
- Heel or foot fracture
- Metatarsalgia
- Plantar fasciitis
Joint infection
Joint pain and injury
- Ankle sprain
- Anterior cruciate ligament tear
- Avascular necrosis of the hip
- Baker's (popliteal) cyst
- Bursitis
- Carpal tunnel surgery
- Carpal tunnel surgery – Discharge instructions
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Chondromalacia patella
- Common finger injuries
- Common wrist injuries
- Costochondritis
- Dupuytren's contracture
- Elbow tendinopathy (tennis and golf elbow)
- Finger dislocation
- Finger dislocation – Discharge instructions
- Finger fracture
- Foot sprain
- Frozen shoulder
- Ganglion cyst
- Hand pain
- Hip pain in adults
- How to use a knee brace
- How to use a shoulder sling
- Iliotibial band syndrome
- Knee arthroscopy
- Knee arthroscopy – Discharge instructions
- Knee pain
- Knee sprain
- Meniscal tear
- Muscle, joint, and bone pain – Discharge instructions
- Patella fracture
- Patellofemoral pain
- Rotator cuff injury
- Rotator cuff repair
- Rotator cuff repair – Discharge instructions
- Separated shoulder
- Shoulder arthroscopy
- Shoulder arthroscopy – Discharge instructions
- Shoulder impingement
- Shoulder pain
- Shoulder replacement – Discharge instructions
- Sprains
- Steroid injection
- Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders
- Tenosynovitis
- Trigger finger
- De Quervain tendinopathy
Joint replacement
- Deciding to have a hip replacement
- Deciding to have a knee replacement
- Hip replacement
- Hip replacement – Discharge instructions
- How to use crutches
- Knee replacement
- Knee replacement – Discharge instructions
- Shoulder replacement
- Shoulder replacement – Discharge instructions
Movement and exercise
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Controlling your blood pressure through lifestyle
- Exercise and heart failure
- Exercise and movement
- Exercise and movement as you get older
- Exercise and other activities to help with depression
- Exercises after open heart surgery
- Exercises for sciatic pain
- Neck exercises
- Physical activity for people with arthritis
- Walking for health
Muscle disorders
- Botulinum toxin injections
- Dermatomyositis
- Dystonia
- Multiple sclerosis relapse in adults – Discharge instructions
- Multiple sclerosis relapse in children – Discharge instructions
- Polymyositis
Muscle pain and injury
- Biceps tendinopathy
- Chest pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Flank pain
- Foot sprain
- Groin strain
- Hamstring injury
- Muscle spasms (muscle cramps)
- Muscle strain
- Muscle, joint, and bone pain – Discharge instructions
- Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
- Nocturnal (nighttime) leg cramps
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Shin splints
Brain and nerves
Bell's palsy
Brain tumors
- Astrocytoma
- Brain cancer
- Brain metastases
- Glioblastoma
- Meningioma
Brain, mind, and learning
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults
Carotid artery disease
- Atherosclerosis
- Carotid artery disease
- Carotid endarterectomy
- Carotid ultrasound
Carpal tunnel
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Hand pain
Coma
Head injury
- Abusive head injury in babies and children
- Brain death
- Caring for someone after a hypoxic brain injury
- Concussion in adults
- Concussion in children and teens
- Head injury in adults
- Head injury in babies and children under 2 years
- Head injury in children and teens
- Head injury observation in adults
- Hypoxic brain injury
- Moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
- Postconcussion syndrome
- Skull fractures
- Subdural hematoma and epidural hematoma
- Subdural hematoma or epidural hematoma – Discharge instructions
Headache and migraine
- Abdominal migraine
- Botulinum toxin injections
- Cluster headache
- Headaches in adults
- Headaches in children
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri)
- Keeping track of your headaches
- Medication overuse headache
- Migraine in adults
- Migraine in children
- Tension headache
Memory loss and dementia
- Caring for someone with Alzheimer disease or dementia
- Delirium (confusion)
- Dementia (including Alzheimer disease)
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Evaluating memory and thinking problems
- HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders
- Mild cognitive impairment
Meningitis
- Bacterial meningitis
- Bacterial meningitis in adults – Discharge instructions
- Encephalitis
- Meningitis in children
- Viral meningitis
- Viral meningitis in adults – Discharge instructions
Meralgia paresthetica
Neuromuscular disorders
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Botulinum toxin injections
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Dermatomyositis
- Essential tremor
- Friedreich ataxia
- Functional neurological symptom disorder
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Huntington disease
- Laryngeal dystonia
- Medicines for Parkinson disease
- Multiple sclerosis in adults
- Multiple sclerosis in children
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myoclonus
- Optic neuritis
- Oral steroid medicines
- Parkinson disease
- Periodic paralysis syndrome
- Polymyositis
- Tourette syndrome
- Tremor
- Trigeminal neuralgia
Neuropathy
- Carpal tunnel surgery
- Carpal tunnel surgery – Discharge instructions
- Hand numbness
- Nerve damage caused by diabetes
- Peripheral neuropathy
Pain
- Chronic pain
- Cold therapy for pain
- Managing acute pain at home
- Nerve blocks
- Neuropathic pain
Seizures and epilepsy
- EEG
- Epilepsy and pregnancy
- Epilepsy in adults
- Febrile seizures in children
- Ketogenic diet
- Ketogenic diet and your child
- Seizures
Spinal cord injury
- Autonomic dysreflexia
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Central spinal cord syndrome
- How to use a sliding board
- Lumbar spinal stenosis
- Neck fracture
- Paraplegia and quadriplegia
- Radiculopathy of the neck and back (including sciatica)
Stroke
- Aphasia
- Arteriovenous malformations in the brain
- Atherosclerosis
- Brain aneurysm
- Carotid artery disease
- Changing positions safely
- Clot-dissolving medicines for heart attack or stroke
- Dysarthria
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Lowering the risk of having a stroke
- Medicines after an ischemic stroke
- Recovery after stroke
- Stroke
- Stroke rehabilitation exercises
- Stroke – Discharge instructions
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Taking care of someone after a stroke
- Thickening liquids
- Transient ischemic attack
Tests
- EEG
- Lumbar puncture (spinal tap)
- Spinal headache
Toxins
- Toxic-metabolic encephalopathy
Vertigo
- Exercises (maneuvers) for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- Vertigo (a type of dizziness)
Cancer
Adrenal cancer
Anal cancer
Bladder cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Bladder instillation
- Transurethral resection of a bladder tumor
- Transurethral resection of a bladder tumor – Discharge instructions
Bone cancer
- Bone biopsy
- Bone biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Bone cancer
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Chondrosarcoma
- Ewing sarcoma
Bone marrow transplant
- Allogeneic bone marrow transplant
- Autologous bone marrow transplant
- Donating bone marrow or blood stem cells
Brain tumors
- Astrocytoma
- Brain cancer
- Brain metastases
- Glioblastoma
- Meningioma
Breast cancer
- Bone metastases
- Brain metastases
- Breast biopsy
- Breast biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Breast cancer
- Breast cancer screening
- Breast reconstruction
- Breast reconstruction – Discharge instructions
- Breast ultrasound
- Choosing surgical treatment for early-stage breast cancer
- Common breast problems
- Deciding about breast reconstruction after mastectomy
- Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
- Genetic testing for breast, ovarian, prostate, and pancreatic cancer
- Inflammatory breast cancer
- Lowering the risk of breast cancer
- Lumpectomy
- Lumpectomy – Discharge instructions
- Lymphedema
- Mammogram
- Mastectomy
- Mastectomy – Discharge instructions
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer
- Seroma
Cancer screening
- Biopsy
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Breast cancer screening
- Breast ultrasound
- CA 125 test
- CA 19-9 test
- Cancer screening
- Cervical cancer screening tests
- Colon and rectal cancer screening
- Colon polyps
- Colonoscopy
- Lowering the risk of breast cancer
- Lowering the risk of colon and rectal cancer
- Lung cancer screening
- Mammogram
- Ovarian cancer screening
- Pelvic exam
- Prostate biopsy
- Prostate cancer screening (PSA tests)
Cancer treatment and complications
- Brachytherapy
- Carcinoid syndrome
- Chemotherapy
- Chemotherapy – Discharge instructions
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- External beam radiation therapy
- Hair loss from cancer treatment
- High-calorie, high-protein diet
- Low-bacteria diet
- Malnutrition
- Malnutrition – Discharge instructions
- Managing loss of appetite and weight loss with cancer
- Managing pain when you have cancer
- Mouth sores from cancer treatment
- Nausea and vomiting with cancer treatment
- Neutropenia and fever in people being treated for cancer
- Osteonecrosis of the jaw
- Preserving fertility after cancer treatment in children
- Preserving fertility after cancer treatment in men
- Preserving fertility after cancer treatment in women
- Tumor lysis syndrome
- What are clinical trials?
- When your cancer treatment makes you tired
Cervical cancer
- Brachytherapy
- Cervical cancer
- Cervical cancer screening tests
- Cervical dysplasia
- Colposcopy
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
Colon and rectal cancer
- Aspirin to prevent heart attacks and cancer
- Brain metastases
- Colectomy
- Colectomy – Discharge instructions
- Colon and rectal cancer
- Colon and rectal cancer screening
- Colon polyps
- Colonoscopy
- Familial adenomatous polyposis
- Lowering the risk of colon and rectal cancer
- Neuroendocrine neoplasms
End of life
- Advance directives
- How to tell when death is near
- Medical care during advanced illness
- Palliative care
Endometrial (uterine) cancer
- Brachytherapy
- Endometrial biopsy
- Uterine cancer
Gallbladder cancer
Head and neck cancer
- Laryngeal cancer
- Reconstruction after surgery for head and neck cancer
- Surgical treatment for head and neck cancer
- Throat cancer
- Tongue cancer
Kidney cancer
- Bone metastases
- Brain metastases
- Kidney biopsy
- Kidney biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Kidney cancer
Leukemia
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
- Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
- Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
- Hairy cell leukemia
- Leukemia in adults
- Leukemia in children
- Tumor lysis syndrome
Liver cancer
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Liver biopsy
- Liver biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Liver cancer
Lung cancer
- Bone metastases
- Brain metastases
- Lung cancer
- Lung cancer screening
- Neuroendocrine neoplasms
- Non-small cell lung cancer
- Pleural mesothelioma
- Small cell lung cancer
Lymphoma and Hodgkin disease
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Diffuse large B cell lymphoma
- Follicular lymphoma
- Hodgkin lymphoma in adults
- Hodgkin lymphoma in children
- Lymph node biopsy
- Lymph node biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Lymphoma
- Splenic marginal zone lymphoma
- Swollen lymph nodes in adults
- Tumor lysis syndrome
- Waldenström macroglobulinemia
Multiple myeloma
- AL amyloidosis
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Bone metastases
- Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
- Multiple myeloma
Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
Ovarian cancer
- Genetic testing for breast, ovarian, prostate, and pancreatic cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Ovarian cancer screening
- Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor
Pancreatic cancer
- Neuroendocrine neoplasms
- Pancreatic cancer
- Whipple procedure
Prostate cancer
- Bone metastases
- Brachytherapy
- Choosing treatment for low-risk localized prostate cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Prostate cancer screening (PSA tests)
Sarcoma
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Soft tissue sarcoma
Skin cancer
- Actinic keratosis
- Bone metastases
- Brain metastases
- Melanoma skin cancer
- Non-melanoma skin cancer
- Skin biopsy
- Skin biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Skin lesion removal
Stomach or esophageal cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Neuroendocrine neoplasms
- Stomach cancer
Testicular cancer
Thyroid cancer
- Seroma
- Thyroid biopsy
- Thyroid biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Thyroid cancer
Vaginal cancer
Children's health
Allergies and asthma
- Asthma action plan for children
- Asthma in children
- Asthma in children – Discharge instructions
- Food allergy
- How to use a nebulizer
- How to use a peak flow meter
- How to use your child's dry powder inhaler
- How to use your child's metered dose inhaler
- Peanut, tree nut, and seed allergy
- Spirometry
- Wheezing in children
Blood disorders
- Beta thalassemia
- Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)
- Low iron in children – Discharge instructions
- Sickle cell disease
- Sickle cell trait
- When your child has sickle cell disease
Bones, joints, and muscles
- Developmental dysplasia of the hip
- Fractures in children – Discharge instructions
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kyphosis in children
- Psoriatic arthritis in children
- Pulled elbow
- Scoliosis
- Setting a broken bone in children
- Torticollis in children
- Transient synovitis
- Vitamin D for babies and children
Brain, mind, and learning
- Acute cerebellar ataxia in children
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Cerebral palsy
- Chiari malformations
- Down syndrome
- Dyslexia
- EEG
- Epilepsy in children
- Febrile seizures in children
- Fragile X syndrome
- Friedreich ataxia
- Headaches in children
- Hydrocephalus in babies and children
- Hypoxic brain injury
- Ketogenic diet and your child
- Learning disabilities
- Medicines for ADHD in children
- Migraine in children
- Multiple sclerosis in children
Breastfeeding
- Benefits of breast milk for premature babies
- Breastfeeding
- Common breastfeeding problems
- Deciding to breastfeed
- Health and nutrition during breastfeeding
- Mastitis
- Medicines and breastfeeding
- Pumping and storing breast milk
- Skin-to-skin care with your newborn
- Weaning from breastfeeding
Cancer in children
- Ewing sarcoma
- Hodgkin lymphoma in children
- Leukemia in children
- Preserving fertility after cancer treatment in children
Care and feeding of infants
- Bottle feeding your baby
- Care of the uncircumcised penis in babies and children
- Colic
- How to put your baby down to sleep
- Should I have my baby circumcised?
- Skin-to-skin care with your newborn
- Slow weight gain in babies and children
- Starting solid foods with babies
- Vitamin D for babies and children
Congenital disorders
- Aortic coarctation in children
- Atrial septal defects in children
- Atrioventricular canal defects
- Cleft lip and cleft palate
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Hypospadias
- Meckel's diverticulum
- Patent foramen ovale
- Spina bifida
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in children
- Ventricular septal defects in children
Dental health in children
- Dental anesthesia
- Dry mouth
- Tooth decay in children
Diabetes in children
- Carb counting for children with diabetes
- Checking your child's blood sugar level
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Giving your child insulin
- Low blood sugar in children with diabetes
- Managing blood sugar in children with diabetes
- Managing diabetes in school
- Type 1 diabetes in adults
- Type 1 diabetes in children
Digestive system
- Abdominal pain in children – Discharge instructions
- Acid reflux and GERD in children and teens
- Appendicitis in children
- Bloody stools in children
- Constipation in children
- Crohn disease in children
- Dehydration in children
- Diarrhea in children
- Fecal incontinence in children
- Gastroenteritis in babies and children
- Groin (inguinal) hernias in children
- Hirschsprung disease
- How to put in a child's nasogastric tube
- Intussusception
- Meckel's diverticulum
- Nausea and vomiting in babies and children
- Pyloric stenosis in babies
- Rectal prolapse in children
- Sedation for procedures in children
- Spitting up and GERD in babies
- Ulcerative colitis in children
Ear, nose, and throat
- Ear infections in children
- Ear tubes
- Environmental allergies in children
- Hearing loss in children
- Nosebleeds
- Removing objects stuck up the nose
- Ruptured eardrum
- Screening for hearing loss in newborns
- Sinusitis in children
- Swallowed objects
- Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in children – Discharge instructions
Eye problems
- Blocked tear ducts in babies
- Conjunctivitis (pink eye)
- Crossed eyes and lazy eye
- Retinopathy of prematurity
Genetic conditions
- Cystic fibrosis
- Down syndrome
- Familial hypercholesterolemia
- Fragile X syndrome
- Friedreich ataxia
- Muscular dystrophy
- Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Phenylketonuria
Growth, puberty, and sexual health
- Androgen replacement in men
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Early puberty
- Late puberty
- My child is short
- Normal puberty
- Preparing a child for day care or preschool
- Teen pregnancy
- Teen sexuality
- Turner syndrome
- Vaginitis in children
- Weight and health in children
- Well-child exam
Heart and blood vessel disease
- Controlling your blood pressure through lifestyle
- Heart block in children
- High blood pressure in children
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in children
- IgA vasculitis (Henoch-Schönlein purpura)
- Kawasaki disease
Infections and vaccines
- Bacterial meningitis
- Bird flu (avian influenza)
- Bronchiolitis and RSV in babies and children
- COVID-19 and children
- COVID-19 in children – Discharge instructions
- COVID-19 vaccines
- Cellulitis around the eye
- Chickenpox
- Chronic granulomatous disease
- Congenital syphilis
- Conjunctivitis (pink eye)
- Cough in children
- Cough, runny nose, and colds
- Croup
- Ear infections in children
- Enterovirus D68
- Erythema infectiosum (fifth disease)
- Febrile seizures in children
- Fever in babies younger than 3 months
- Fever in children
- Fever in children 3 months to 3 years old – Discharge instructions
- Fever in children over 3 years old – Discharge instructions
- Flu
- Flu in children – Discharge instructions
- Flu vaccine
- Hand, foot, and mouth disease and herpangina
- Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine
- Meningitis in children
- Mycoplasma pneumonia in children
- Osteomyelitis in children
- Outer ear infection
- Pneumonia in children
- Pneumonia in children – Discharge instructions
- Poliomyelitis
- Roseola
- Rotavirus infection
- Ruptured eardrum
- Scarlet fever
- Sepsis in babies and children
- Sepsis in newborn babies
- Sore throat in children
- Strep throat in children
- Swollen neck nodes in children
- Tdap vaccine
- Tetanus
- Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in children
- Upper respiratory infection in babies and children – Discharge instructions
- Vaccines for babies and children age 0 to 6 years
- Vaccines for children age 7 to 18 years
- Viral meningitis in children – Discharge instructions
- Whooping cough in babies and children
- Whooping cough in teens and adults
Injuries, first aid, and CPR for children
- Abusive head injury in babies and children
- Accidental ingestion in children
- Accidental ingestion in children – Discharge instructions
- Acetaminophen dosing in children
- Acetaminophen poisoning
- Brief resolved unexplained event (BRUE) in babies
- CPR for children
- Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning
- Cervical collars for children
- Chemical skin burn
- Chest trauma
- Coccyx injury
- Common toe injuries
- Concussion in children and teens
- Deciding where to go for care
- Elbow fracture
- Emergency care for infants and children with a tracheostomy
- Flank pain
- Fracture in adults – Discharge instructions
- Fractures in children
- Giving your child medicines
- Gun safety for families
- Head injury in babies and children under 2 years
- Head injury in children and teens
- Head injury observation in children
- How to care for your child's cast
- How to use a knee brace
- How to use a shoulder sling
- How to use a walker
- How to use crutches
- Ibuprofen dosing in children
- Knee sprain
- Lead levels in children
- Lead poisoning
- Low back pain – Discharge instructions
- Motor vehicle crash – Discharge instructions
- Mouth and dental injuries in children
- Nosebleeds
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Postconcussion syndrome
- Quitting smoking for teens
- Removing objects stuck in the eye
- Removing objects stuck in the rectum
- Removing objects stuck in the skin
- Removing objects stuck up the nose
- Removing staples
- Removing stitches
- Secondhand smoke and children
- Sedation for procedures in children
- Shoulder pain
- Smoke inhalation
- Smoke inhalation – Discharge instructions
- Sprains
- Staying safe in the sun
- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
- Surgery to fix a broken bone
- Surgery to fix a broken bone – Discharge instructions
- Swallowed objects
- Taking care of bruises
- Taking care of cuts, scrapes, and puncture wounds
Kidneys and urinary system
- Balanitis in children
- Blood in the urine (hematuria) in children
- Daytime wetting in children
- Hydronephrosis in babies
- Kidney stones in children
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Urinary tract infections in children
- Vesicoureteral reflux in children
Mental health
- Anxiety in children and teens
- Depression in children and teens
- Depression in children and teens – Discharge instructions
- Eating disorders
- Helping a child cope with grief
- Helping a child cope with the death of a pet
- Screening for depression in children and teens
Newborns
- Apgar score
- Bilirubin test
- Bottle feeding your baby
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
- Car seat safety
- Caring for your newborn
- Circumcision in babies and children
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Congenital hypothyroidism
- Congenital syphilis
- Coping while caring for a newborn
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Fever in babies younger than 3 months
- Hemangioma
- How to put your baby down to sleep
- Hypospadias
- Hypoxic brain injury
- Intraventricular hemorrhage in newborns
- Jaundice in babies
- Jaundice in babies – Discharge instructions
- Newborn appearance
- Newborn hypoglycemia
- Newborn necrotizing enterocolitis
- Newborn screening
- Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
- Phototherapy
- Premature baby – Discharge instructions
- Retinopathy of prematurity
- Routine treatments for newborn babies
- Safe sleep for babies
- Screening for hearing loss in newborns
- Should I have my baby circumcised?
- Shoulder dystocia
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in children
- Transient tachypnea of the newborn
- Undescended testes
- What to expect in the NICU
- When a baby is born premature
Nutrition
- Benefits of breast milk for premature babies
- Healthy eating for children 2 to 12 years old
- Healthy eating for teens
- Malnutrition
- Malnutrition – Discharge instructions
Safety
- Acetaminophen dosing in children
- Acetaminophen poisoning
- Acetaminophen poisoning – Discharge instructions
- Car seat safety
- Car seat safety for premature babies
- Giving your child medicines
- How to dispose of needles and other sharps
- Ibuprofen dosing in children
- Keeping children and teens safe online and on social media
- Lowering the risk of a central line infection
- Lowering the risk of a surgical site infection
- Managing higher risk of falls from your medicines
- Medication safety
- Preventing falls in children
- Quitting smoking for teens
- Safe sleep for babies
- Staying safe in the hospital
- Staying safe in the sun
Skin, hair, and nails
- Cellulitis and erysipelas (skin infections)
- Diaper rash
- Eczema (atopic dermatitis)
- Heat rash (prickly heat)
- Hemangioma
- Lice
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- Roseola
Sleep problems in children
- Bedwetting in children
- Good sleep hygiene
- How to put your baby down to sleep
- Night terrors, confusional arousals, and nightmares in children
- Obstructive sleep apnea in children
- Sleepwalking in children
Substance use and misuse
- Alcohol poisoning
- Alcohol use disorder – Discharge instructions
- Alcohol use – When is drinking a problem?
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Blood ethanol concentration
- Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome
- Cannabis use disorder
- Chemical ingestion in adults
- Cocaine use disorder
- How to give naloxone
- Managing acute pain at home
- Medical cannabis
- Opioid overdose
- Opioid use disorder
- Opioid withdrawal – ED discharge instructions
- Prescription drug misuse
- Quitting smoking for adults
- Smokeless tobacco
- Substance use disorder
- Taking opioids safely
- Treatment for substance use disorder
- Vaping
Toilet training and bedwetting
- Bedwetting in children
- Daytime wetting in children
- Fecal incontinence in children
Where to go for care
- Deciding where to go for care
Dental health
Dental health in adults
- Dental anesthesia
- Dry mouth
- Tooth decay in adults
Dental health in children
- Dental anesthesia
- Dry mouth
- Tooth decay in children
Dental injuries
- Mouth and dental injuries in adults
- Mouth and dental injuries in children
Infection
Teeth
- Fluoride
- Tooth decay in adults
- Tooth decay in children
- Toothache
Diabetes
Blood sugar monitoring
- Blood glucose tests
- Checking your blood sugar at home
- Hemoglobin A1C tests
- Keeping track of your blood sugar
- The ABCs of diabetes
Diabetes and pregnancy
- Care during pregnancy for people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes
- Gestational diabetes
- Preparing for pregnancy when you have diabetes
Diabetes in children
- Carb counting for children with diabetes
- Checking your child's blood sugar level
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Giving your child insulin
- Low blood sugar in children with diabetes
- Managing blood sugar in children with diabetes
- Managing diabetes in school
- Type 1 diabetes in adults
- Type 1 diabetes in children
Diabetic kidney disease
- Kidney disease caused by diabetes
Diabetic retinopathy
- Age-related vision loss
- Diabetic retinopathy
Diet
- Carb counting for adults with diabetes
- Diabetes and diet
- The ABCs of diabetes
Foot care
- Diabetic foot ulcer
- Foot care for people with diabetes
- Nerve damage caused by diabetes
Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
- Low blood sugar in people with diabetes
- Low blood sugar in people without diabetes
Insulin
- How to dispose of needles and other sharps
- How to give an insulin shot
- How to use a pen injector
- How to use an autoinjector
- How to use an insulin pen
- Insulin pumps
- Using insulin
Metabolic syndrome
Type 1 diabetes
- Diabetes and heart disease
- Diabetes and infections
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Diabetic ketoacidosis – Discharge instructions
- Hemoglobin A1C tests
- Insulin pumps
- Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults
- Low blood sugar in people with diabetes
- Sick day planning for people with type 1 diabetes
- The ABCs of diabetes
- Traveling when you have diabetes
- Type 1 diabetes in adults
- Type 1 diabetes – Discharge instructions
- Using insulin
Type 2 diabetes
- Carb counting for adults with diabetes
- Diabetes and heart disease
- Diabetes and infections
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Diabetic ketoacidosis – Discharge instructions
- Hemoglobin A1C tests
- Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state
- Insulin pumps
- Low blood sugar in people with diabetes
- Lowering your risk of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes
- Sick day planning for people with type 1 diabetes
- The ABCs of diabetes
- Treatment for type 2 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes – Discharge instructions
- Using insulin
Digestive system
Abdominal pain
- Abdominal pain
- Abdominal pain in adults – Discharge instructions
- Appendectomy
- Appendectomy – Discharge instructions
- Appendicitis in adults
- Appendicitis in children
- Gastritis
- Gastritis – Discharge instructions
- Gastrointestinal tract perforation
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Ischemic bowel disease
- Lactose intolerance
- Stomach ache and stomach upset
Acid reflux
- Acid reflux and GERD during pregnancy
- Acid reflux and GERD in adults
- Acid reflux and GERD in children and teens
- Esophageal stricture
- Fundoplication
- Fundoplication – Discharge instructions
- Hiatal hernia
- Hiatal hernia – Discharge instructions
- Spitting up and GERD in babies
Anal cancer
Anus and rectum
- Anal abscess and fistula
- Anal abscess and fistula – Discharge instructions
- Anal fissure
- Anal pruritus (anal itching)
- Hemorrhoid removal
- Hemorrhoid removal – Discharge instructions
- Hemorrhoids
- Pilonidal cyst – Discharge instructions
- Rectal prolapse in adults
Bowel obstruction
- Intussusception
- Postoperative ileus
- Small bowel obstruction
- Small bowel obstruction – Discharge instructions
Celiac disease
- Celiac disease
- Gluten-free diet
Colon and rectal cancer
- Aspirin to prevent heart attacks and cancer
- Brain metastases
- Colectomy
- Colectomy – Discharge instructions
- Colon and rectal cancer
- Colon and rectal cancer screening
- Colon polyps
- Colonoscopy
- Familial adenomatous polyposis
- Lowering the risk of colon and rectal cancer
- Neuroendocrine neoplasms
Constipation
- Constipation in adults
- Constipation in children
- How to give an enema
Diarrhea
- C. difficile infection
- Diarrhea in children
- Diarrhea in teens and adults
- E. coli diarrhea
- Giardia
- Lactose intolerance
Diverticulosis and diverticulitis
- Diverticulitis
- Diverticulitis – Discharge instructions
- Diverticulosis
- Low-fiber diet
Esophagus
- Achalasia
- Barrett's esophagus
- Dysphagia
- Dysphagia in adults – Discharge instructions
- Eosinophilic esophagitis
- Esophagitis
- Zenker's diverticulum
Fecal incontinence
Fistulas and abscesses
- Anal abscess and fistula
- Enteric fistula
- Rectovaginal fistula
Food poisoning
- Campylobacter infection
- E. coli diarrhea
- Enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever
- Food poisoning
- Gastroenteritis in babies and children
- Listeria infection
- Nausea and vomiting in adults
- Rotavirus infection
- Salmonella infection
- Viral gastroenteritis in adults
Gallbladder cancer
Gallstones and gallbladder problems
- Cholecystectomy
- Cholecystectomy – Discharge instructions
- Choosing surgery to treat gallstones
- Gallstones
- Gallstones – Discharge instructions
- Lithotripsy of bile or pancreatic duct stones
- Lithotripsy of bile or pancreatic duct stones – Discharge instructions
Gas and bloating
Gastroparesis
- Gastroparesis (delayed gastric emptying)
GI bleeding
- Angiodysplasia of the GI tract
- Bloody stools in adults
- Bloody stools in children
- GI bleed
- GI bleed – Discharge instructions
Hiccups
Inflammatory bowel disease
- Crohn disease in adults
- Crohn disease in children
- Diet for inflammatory bowel disease in adults
- Ulcerative colitis in adults
- Ulcerative colitis in children
Malabsorption
- Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency
Microscopic colitis
- Colitis
- Colitis – Discharge instructions
- Microscopic colitis
Mouth sores
Nausea and vomiting
- Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome
- Gastroparesis (delayed gastric emptying)
- Giardia
- Motion sickness
- Nausea and vomiting in adults
Nutrition
- Enteral (tube) feeding
- Failure to thrive in adults
- How to care for a G tube or G button
- Parenteral nutrition
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) in adults
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) – Discharge instructions
- Surgical gastrostomy
- Surgical gastrostomy – Discharge instructions
Ostomy
- Colostomy or ileostomy surgery
- How to care for an ostomy
- Living with a colostomy
- Living with an ileostomy
Pancreatic cancer
- Neuroendocrine neoplasms
- Pancreatic cancer
- Whipple procedure
Pancreatitis
- Acute pancreatitis
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Pancreatitis – Discharge instructions
Peptic ulcers
- GI bleed
- H. pylori infection
- H. pylori tests
- Peptic ulcers
Polyps
- Colon polyps
- Stomach polyps
Stomach or esophageal cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Neuroendocrine neoplasms
- Stomach cancer
Tests and procedures
- 24-hour pH monitoring
- Abdominal paracentesis
- Appendectomy
- Appendectomy – Discharge instructions
- Chemical ingestion in adults
- Colectomy – Discharge instructions
- Colonoscopy
- Colonoscopy – Discharge instructions
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) – Discharge instructions
- HIDA scan
- How to care for a nasogastric tube
- How to give a tube feeding
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) in adults
- Sigmoidoscopy
- Small bowel resection
- Small bowel resection – Discharge instructions
- Surgical gastrostomy – Discharge instructions
- Upper endoscopy
- Upper gastrointestinal series and esophagram
Ear, nose, and throat
Eustachian tube problems
Head and neck infections
- Ear infections in adults
- Ear infections in children
- Ear tubes
- Mastoiditis
- Outer ear infection
- Parotitis
- Ruptured eardrum
- Sinusitis in adults
- Sinusitis in children
Hearing loss or problems
- Age-related hearing loss (presbycusis)
- Audiometry
- Ear wax impaction
- Hearing loss in adults
- Hearing loss in children
- Screening for hearing loss in newborns
- Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
- Vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma)
Inner ear problems
- Labyrinthitis
- Meniere disease
- Otitis media with effusion
- Vertigo (a type of dizziness)
Nose and sinuses
- Chronic sinusitis
- Deviated septum
- Environmental allergies in adults
- Environmental allergies in children
- How to rinse out your nose with salt water
- Nasal polyps
- Nosebleeds
- Rhinoplasty
- Rhinoplasty – Discharge instructions
- Sinusitis in adults
- Sinusitis in children
Objects in the ear, nose, or throat
- Removing objects stuck in the ear
- Removing objects stuck up the nose
- Swallowed objects
Paradoxical vocal fold motion
- Inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO)
Tests and procedures
- Ear tubes – Discharge instructions
- Esophageal manometry
- Laryngoscopy
- Septoplasty
- Septoplasty – Discharge instructions
Tonsils and adenoids
- Peritonsillar abscess
- Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in children – Discharge instructions
- Tonsillectomy in adults
- Tonsillectomy in adults – Discharge instructions
Tracheostomy
- Emergency care for infants and children with a tracheostomy
- How to care for a tracheostomy
- Tracheostomy
Vocal cord (larynx) problems
- Inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO)
- Laryngitis
Emergency medicine
Emergency department discharge instructions
- Abdominal muscle strain – ED discharge instructions
- Abdominal pain in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Abdominal pain in children – ED discharge instructions
- Abdominal trauma in pregnancy – ED discharge instructions
- Abrasions – ED discharge instructions
- Abscess incision and drainage – ED discharge instructions
- Accidental ingestion in children – ED discharge instructions
- Accidental overdose in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Accidental overdose in children – ED discharge instructions
- Acetaminophen poisoning – ED discharge instructions
- Acid reflux and GERD in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Acid reflux and GERD in babies – ED discharge instructions
- Acid reflux and GERD in children and teens – ED discharge instructions
- Afebrile seizures in children – ED discharge instructions
- Alcohol intoxication – ED discharge instructions
- Alcohol use disorder – ED discharge instructions
- Allergic reaction – ED discharge instructions
- Anal fissure in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Anemia in adults, possibly from low iron – ED discharge instructions
- Anemia in children, possibly from low iron – ED discharge instructions
- Animal bites – ED discharge instructions
- Ankle fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Ankle sprain – ED discharge instructions
- Anterior cruciate ligament tear – ED discharge instructions
- Anxiety in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Anxiety in children and teens – ED discharge instructions
- Asthma action plan for adults – ED discharge instructions
- Asthma action plan for children – ED discharge instructions
- Asthma in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Asthma in children – ED discharge instructions
- Atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter – ED discharge instructions
- Bacterial vaginosis – ED discharge instructions
- Benzodiazepine use disorder – ED discharge instructions
- Black eye – ED discharge instructions
- Bladder pain syndrome (interstitial cystitis) – ED discharge instructions
- Bleeding in early pregnancy – ED discharge instructions
- Bleeding in late pregnancy – ED discharge instructions
- Blood in the urine (hematuria) – ED discharge instructions
- Bloody stools in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Bloody stools in children – ED discharge instructions
- Blunt abdominal trauma – ED discharge instructions
- Blunt chest trauma – ED discharge instructions
- Boil – ED discharge instructions
- Bronchiolitis in children – ED discharge instructions
- Bronchitis in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Bursitis – ED discharge instructions
- C. difficile infection – ED discharge instructions
- COPD exacerbation in adults – ED discharge instructions
- COVID-19 in children – ED discharge instructions
- COVID-19 in pregnancy – ED discharge instructions
- COVID-19 – ED discharge instructions
- Care after sexual assault in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Caregiver work excuse – ED discharge instructions
- Cast care – ED discharge instructions
- Cellulitis (skin infection) in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Cellulitis (skin infection) in children – ED discharge instructions
- Cervical strain (whiplash) – ED discharge instructions
- Chemical eye injury – ED discharge instructions
- Chemical skin burn – ED discharge instructions
- Chest pain in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Chest pain in children and teens – ED discharge instructions
- Clavicle fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Coccyx injury – ED discharge instructions
- Cold sores – ED discharge instructions
- Colds in children – ED discharge instructions
- Colic – ED discharge instructions
- Common finger infections – ED discharge instructions
- Common finger injuries – ED discharge instructions
- Common wrist injuries – ED discharge instructions
- Concussion in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Concussion in children and teens – ED discharge instructions
- Conjunctivitis (pink eye) – ED discharge instructions
- Constipation in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Constipation in children – ED discharge instructions
- Corneal abrasion – ED discharge instructions
- Corneal ulcer – ED discharge instructions
- Cough in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Cough in children – ED discharge instructions
- Croup in children – ED discharge instructions
- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) – ED discharge instructions
- Degenerative disc disease – ED discharge instructions
- Dehydration in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Dehydration in children – ED discharge instructions
- Dementia – ED discharge instructions
- Dental abscess – ED discharge instructions
- Dental pain – ED discharge instructions
- Depression during and after pregnancy – ED discharge instructions
- Depression in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Depression in children and teens – ED discharge instructions
- Diaper rash – ED discharge instructions
- Diarrhea in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Diarrhea in children – ED discharge instructions
- Dizziness in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Ear infection – ED discharge instructions
- Ear pain – ED discharge instructions
- Ear wax impaction – ED discharge instructions
- Ectopic pregnancy – ED discharge instructions
- Eczema – ED discharge instructions
- Elbow fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Elbow sprain – ED discharge instructions
- Endometriosis – ED discharge instructions
- Excuse from school, work, or physical activity – ED discharge instructions
- Fainting in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Fainting in children – ED discharge instructions
- Fatigue – ED discharge instructions
- Febrile seizures in children – ED discharge instructions
- Femur fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Fever in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Fever in babies younger than 3 months – ED discharge instructions
- Fever in children 3 months to 3 years – ED discharge instructions
- Finger dislocation – ED discharge instructions
- Finger fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Finger sprain – ED discharge instructions
- Flank pain – ED discharge instructions
- Flu in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Flu in children – ED discharge instructions
- Fluid in the ear – ED discharge instructions
- Food impaction – ED discharge instructions
- Food poisoning – ED discharge instructions
- Foot fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Foot sprain – ED discharge instructions
- Forearm and wrist fractures – ED discharge instructions
- Fracture in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Fracture in children – ED discharge instructions
- Fungal skin rash – ED discharge instructions
- Gallstones – ED discharge instructions
- Gastritis – ED discharge instructions
- General trauma in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Gout – ED discharge instructions
- Groin strain – ED discharge instructions
- Gunshot wound – ED discharge instructions
- Hamstring injury – ED discharge instructions
- Hand fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Hand, foot, and mouth disease in children – ED discharge instructions
- Headache in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Headache in children – ED discharge instructions
- Heart failure – ED discharge instructions
- Heat illness – ED discharge instructions
- Heavy periods – ED discharge instructions
- Hemorrhoids – ED discharge instructions
- High blood pressure – ED discharge instructions
- High blood sugar in adults – ED discharge instructions
- High blood sugar in children – ED discharge instructions
- Hip pain – ED discharge instructions
- How to give naloxone – ED discharge instructions
- How to use a knee brace – ED discharge instructions
- How to use a metered dose inhaler in adults – ED discharge instructions
- How to use a metered dose inhaler in children – ED discharge instructions
- How to use a nebulizer – ED discharge instructions
- How to use a shoulder sling – ED discharge instructions
- How to use eye medicines – ED discharge instructions
- Human bite – ED discharge instructions
- Impetigo – ED discharge instructions
- Ingrown toenail – ED discharge instructions
- Insect bites and stings – ED discharge instructions
- Jaundice in babies – ED discharge instructions
- Jaw fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Kidney stones in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Kidney stones in children – ED discharge instructions
- Knee pain – ED discharge instructions
- Knee sprain – ED discharge instructions
- Laceration infection – ED discharge instructions
- Laryngitis – ED discharge instructions
- Late to school or work excuse – ED discharge instructions
- Leg muscle strain – ED discharge instructions
- Lice – ED discharge instructions
- Low back pain – ED discharge instructions
- Low blood sugar in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Low blood sugar in children – ED discharge instructions
- Lower leg fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Meniscal tear – ED discharge instructions
- Minor contusion – ED discharge instructions
- Minor head injury in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Minor head injury in children and teens – ED discharge instructions
- Minor skin burns – ED discharge instructions
- Morning sickness – ED discharge instructions
- Motor vehicle crash (adult) – ED discharge instructions
- Motor vehicle crash (child) – ED discharge instructions
- Muscle spasm – ED discharge instructions
- Muscle strain – ED discharge instructions
- Nausea and vomiting in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Nausea and vomiting in children – ED discharge instructions
- Neck pain – ED discharge instructions
- Nose fracture or injury – ED discharge instructions
- Nosebleeds – ED discharge instructions
- Opioid overdose – ED discharge instructions
- Opioid use disorder – ED discharge instructions
- Outer ear infection – ED discharge instructions
- Ovarian cyst – ED discharge instructions
- Palpitations – ED discharge instructions
- Panic attack – ED discharge instructions
- Paronychia – ED discharge instructions
- Patella fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Pelvic inflammatory disease – ED discharge instructions
- Pelvic pain – ED discharge instructions
- Penetrating chest trauma – ED discharge instructions
- Peptic ulcer – ED discharge instructions
- Pleuritic chest pain – ED discharge instructions
- Pneumonia in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Pneumonia in children – ED discharge instructions
- Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac – ED discharge instructions
- Postconcussion syndrome – ED discharge instructions
- Pregnancy loss – ED discharge instructions
- Preseptal cellulitis – ED discharge instructions
- Preventing falls – ED discharge instructions
- Procedural sedation in children – ED discharge instructions
- Pulled elbow in children, reduction successful – ED discharge instructions
- Quitting smoking – ED discharge instructions
- Removing objects stuck in the ear – ED discharge instructions
- Removing objects stuck in the eye – ED discharge instructions
- Removing objects stuck in the nose (child) – ED discharge instructions
- Removing objects stuck in the rectum – ED discharge instructions
- Removing objects stuck in the skin – ED discharge instructions
- Return to school or work – ED discharge instructions
- Rib fracture or bruised rib – ED discharge instructions
- Ruptured eardrum – ED discharge instructions
- Sacroiliac joint pain – ED discharge instructions
- Sciatica – ED discharge instructions
- Seasonal allergies – ED discharge instructions
- Sedation for procedures in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Sedative withdrawal – ED discharge instructions
- Seizures in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Self-harm in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Self-harm in children and teens – ED discharge instructions
- Setting a broken bone – ED discharge instructions
- Sexually transmitted infections – ED discharge instructions
- Shortness of breath in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Shoulder or upper arm fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Shoulder pain – ED discharge instructions
- Shoulder sprain – ED discharge instructions
- Sickle cell disease pain – ED discharge instructions
- Side effects from medicines in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Side effects from medicines in children – ED discharge instructions
- Sinusitis in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Sinusitis in children – ED discharge instructions
- Skin glue – ED discharge instructions
- Skin rash – ED discharge instructions
- Skull fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Smoke inhalation – ED discharge instructions
- Sore throat in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Sore throat in children – ED discharge instructions
- Splint care – ED discharge instructions
- Staples – ED discharge instructions
- Stitches – ED discharge instructions
- Strep throat – ED discharge instructions
- Stress fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Substance use disorder – ED discharge instructions
- Sunburn – ED discharge instructions
- Swallowed objects in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Swallowed objects in children – ED discharge instructions
- Taking medicines – ED discharge instructions
- Taking opioids safely – ED discharge instructions
- Thumb sprain – ED discharge instructions
- Toe fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Tooth decay – ED discharge instructions
- Transient ischemic attack – ED discharge instructions
- Upper back pain – ED discharge instructions
- Upper respiratory infection in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Upper respiratory infection in babies and children – ED discharge instructions
- Urinary incontinence in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Urinary tract infection in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Urinary tract infection in children – ED discharge instructions
- Vaginal yeast infection in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Vertebral compression fracture – ED discharge instructions
- Vertigo – ED discharge instructions
- Viral gastroenteritis in babies and children – ED discharge instructions
- Viral meningitis in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Viral meningitis in children – ED discharge instructions
- Viral skin rash – ED discharge instructions
- Weakness – ED discharge instructions
- Wheezing in adults – ED discharge instructions
- Wheezing in children
- Wheezing in children – ED discharge instructions
- Whooping cough in babies and children – ED discharge instructions
- Whooping cough in teens and adults – ED discharge instructions
- Wound care – ED discharge instructions
- Wrist sprain – ED discharge instructions
Fractures
- Ankle fracture
- Bone metastases
- Clavicle fracture
- Coccyx injury
- Elbow fracture
- Facial fractures
- Femur fracture
- Finger fracture
- Forearm fracture
- Fracture in adults – Discharge instructions
- Fractures in adults
- Fractures in children
- Hand fracture
- Head injury observation in children
- Heel or foot fracture
- Hip fracture
- Hip fracture in adults – Discharge instructions
- How to care for a splint
- How to care for your cast
- How to care for your child's cast
- How to use crutches
- Lower leg fracture
- Neck fracture
- Nose fracture
- Patella fracture
- Pelvic fracture
- Rib injury in adults
- Setting a broken bone in adults
- Shoulder or upper arm fracture
- Skull fractures
- Stress fracture
- Toe fracture
- Vertebral compression fracture
- Wrist fracture
- X-ray
Head injury
- Abusive head injury in babies and children
- Brain death
- Caring for someone after a hypoxic brain injury
- Concussion in adults
- Concussion in children and teens
- Head injury in adults
- Head injury in babies and children under 2 years
- Head injury in children and teens
- Head injury observation in adults
- Hypoxic brain injury
- Moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
- Postconcussion syndrome
- Skull fractures
- Subdural hematoma and epidural hematoma
- Subdural hematoma or epidural hematoma – Discharge instructions
Injuries, first aid, and CPR for adults
- Abusive head injury in babies and children
- Black eye
- CPR for adults
- Cervical collars for adults
- Chemical eye injury
- Chemical ingestion in adults
- Chemical skin burn
- Chest trauma
- Coccyx injury
- Common toe injuries
- Deciding where to go for care
- Electrical burns
- Flank pain
- Fracture in adults – Discharge instructions
- Frostbite
- Heat stroke
- How to give naloxone
- How to use a knee brace
- How to use a shoulder sling
- How to use a walker
- Hypothermia
- Knee sprain
- Low back pain – Discharge instructions
- Motor vehicle crash – Discharge instructions
- Mouth and dental injuries in adults
- Nosebleeds
- Removing objects stuck in the eye
- Removing objects stuck in the rectum
- Removing objects stuck in the skin
- Removing objects stuck in the vagina
- Removing staples
- Removing stitches
- Shoulder pain
- Skin glue for minor cuts
- Smoke inhalation
- Smoke inhalation – Discharge instructions
- Sprains
- Stitches and staples
- Surgery to fix a broken bone
- Surgery to fix a broken bone – Discharge instructions
- Swallowed objects
- Taking care of bruises
- Taking care of cuts, scrapes, and puncture wounds
Injuries, first aid, and CPR for children
- Abusive head injury in babies and children
- Accidental ingestion in children
- Accidental ingestion in children – Discharge instructions
- Acetaminophen dosing in children
- Acetaminophen poisoning
- Brief resolved unexplained event (BRUE) in babies
- CPR for children
- Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning
- Cervical collars for children
- Chemical skin burn
- Chest trauma
- Coccyx injury
- Common toe injuries
- Concussion in children and teens
- Deciding where to go for care
- Elbow fracture
- Emergency care for infants and children with a tracheostomy
- Flank pain
- Fracture in adults – Discharge instructions
- Fractures in children
- Giving your child medicines
- Gun safety for families
- Head injury in babies and children under 2 years
- Head injury in children and teens
- Head injury observation in children
- How to care for your child's cast
- How to use a knee brace
- How to use a shoulder sling
- How to use a walker
- How to use crutches
- Ibuprofen dosing in children
- Knee sprain
- Lead levels in children
- Lead poisoning
- Low back pain – Discharge instructions
- Motor vehicle crash – Discharge instructions
- Mouth and dental injuries in children
- Nosebleeds
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Postconcussion syndrome
- Quitting smoking for teens
- Removing objects stuck in the eye
- Removing objects stuck in the rectum
- Removing objects stuck in the skin
- Removing objects stuck up the nose
- Removing staples
- Removing stitches
- Secondhand smoke and children
- Sedation for procedures in children
- Shoulder pain
- Smoke inhalation
- Smoke inhalation – Discharge instructions
- Sprains
- Staying safe in the sun
- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
- Surgery to fix a broken bone
- Surgery to fix a broken bone – Discharge instructions
- Swallowed objects
- Taking care of bruises
- Taking care of cuts, scrapes, and puncture wounds
Poisoning and overdose
- Acetaminophen poisoning
- Alcohol poisoning
- Cadmium toxicity
- Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning
- Chemical ingestion in adults
- How to give naloxone
- Lead levels in children
- Lead poisoning
- Opioid overdose
Eyes and vision
Crossed eyes and lazy eye
- Crossed eyes and lazy eye
Detached retina
Dry eyes
Eye infections
- Cellulitis around the eye
- Conjunctivitis (pink eye)
Eye inflammation
- Chorioretinitis
- Conjunctivitis (pink eye)
- Subconjunctival hemorrhage
- Uveitis
Eye injuries
- Chemical eye injury
- Corneal abrasion
- Photokeratitis (arc eye)
- Removing objects stuck in the eye
Eyelid problems
- Blepharitis
- Blocked tear ducts in babies
- Chalazion
- Stye
Pterygium
Vision loss and blindness
- Age-related macular degeneration
- Age-related vision loss
- Angle-closure glaucoma
- Capsulotomy after cataract surgery
- Cataract removal
- Cataracts
- Detached retina
- Diabetic retinopathy
- Open-angle glaucoma
- Optic neuritis
- Presbyopia and refractive errors
- Retinitis pigmentosa
- Retinopathy of prematurity
Heart and blood vessels
Anticoagulation
- Anticoagulant medicines – Uses and kinds
- How to give an anticoagulant shot
- How to take anticoagulants safely
- Managing increased bleeding risk
- Partial thromboplastin time test
- Prothrombin time and INR (PT/INR)
- Warfarin and your diet
Aortic aneurysm
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Aortic aneurysm repair
- Aortic aneurysm repair – Discharge instructions
- Thoracic aortic aneurysm
Aortic dissection
Blood clots in the legs or lungs
- Angiography
- D-dimer test
- Deep vein thrombosis (blood clot in the arm)
- Deep vein thrombosis (blood clot in the leg)
- Deep vein thrombosis – Discharge instructions
- IVC filter placement
- Intermittent pneumatic compression devices
- Lowering the risk of a blood clot
- Pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung)
- Pulmonary embolism – Discharge instructions
Cardiac arrest
- Chest pain – Discharge instructions
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Ventricular fibrillation
Cardiac tamponade
- Cardiac tamponade
- Pericardial effusion
Cardiomyopathy
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in adults
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in children
- Left ventricular hypertrophy
- Stress cardiomyopathy
Congenital anomalies
- Aortic coarctation in adults
- Aortic coarctation in children
- Atrial septal defects in adults
- Atrial septal defects in children
- Atrioventricular canal defects
- Patent foramen ovale
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in children
- Ventricular septal defects in adults
- Ventricular septal defects in children
Coronary heart disease
- Angina
- Aspirin to prevent heart attacks and cancer
- Atherosclerosis
- Can foods or supplements lower cholesterol?
- Cardiac catheterization – Discharge instructions
- Chest pain
- Chest pain – Discharge instructions
- Clot-dissolving medicines for heart attack or stroke
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery – Discharge instructions
- Coronary artery disease
- Coronary artery disease in women
- Diabetes and heart disease
- Familial hypercholesterolemia
- Heart attack
- Heart attack – Discharge instructions
- Living with coronary artery disease
- Lowering your risk of heart disease
- Medicines after a heart attack
- Medicines for angina
- Stenting for the heart
- Stenting for the heart – Discharge instructions
- Treatment choices for angina
- What can go wrong after a heart attack?
Endocarditis
Fainting
- Hypovolemia in adults
- Orthostatic hypotension
- Syncope (fainting)
- Syncope (fainting) – Discharge instructions
Heart failure
- Angioedema caused by ACE inhibitor medicines
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy
- Choosing surgical treatment for heart failure
- Digoxin toxicity
- Exercise and heart failure
- Heart failure
- Heart failure action plan
- Heart failure and atrial fibrillation
- Heart failure in adults – Discharge instructions
- Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
- Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Heart transplant
- How to put on and take off compression stockings
- Medicines for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- When your lungs fill with fluid
Heart murmurs
Heart valve disorders
- Aortic regurgitation in adults
- Aortic stenosis
- Mitral regurgitation
- Mitral stenosis in adults
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Prosthetic valves
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation – Discharge instructions
- Tricuspid regurgitation
- Tricuspid stenosis
High blood pressure
- Checking your blood pressure at home
- Controlling your blood pressure through lifestyle
- High blood pressure emergencies
- High blood pressure in adults
- Medicines for high blood pressure
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Renovascular hypertension
- Understanding your risk of high blood pressure
High cholesterol and triglycerides
- Atherosclerosis
- Can foods or supplements lower cholesterol?
- Cholesterol tests
- Familial hypercholesterolemia
- Heart-healthy diet
- High cholesterol
- High triglycerides
- Triglyceride test
Irregular heartbeat
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial fibrillation – Discharge instructions
- Atrial flutter
- Atrial flutter – Discharge instructions
- Bradycardia
- Cardioversion
- Cardioversion – Discharge instructions
- Catheter ablation for the heart
- Catheter ablation for the heart – Discharge instructions
- Digoxin toxicity
- Heart block in adults
- Heart block in children
- Heart failure and atrial fibrillation
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator insertion
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator insertion – Discharge instructions
- Insertable cardiac monitor placement
- Insertable cardiac monitor placement – Discharge instructions
- Long QT syndrome
- Medicines for atrial fibrillation
- Overview of heart arrhythmias
- Pacemaker insertion
- Pacemaker insertion – Discharge instructions
- Palpitations
- Sinus node dysfunction
- Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)
- Tachycardia
- Ventricular premature beats
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Myopericardial disease
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Myocarditis
- Pericarditis in adults
- Pericarditis in children
Pacemakers and defibrillators
- Atrial fibrillation – Discharge instructions
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator insertion – Discharge instructions
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
- Pacemaker check
- Pacemaker insertion
- Pacemaker insertion – Discharge instructions
- Pacemakers
Raynaud disease
Shock
Stroke
- Aphasia
- Arteriovenous malformations in the brain
- Atherosclerosis
- Brain aneurysm
- Carotid artery disease
- Changing positions safely
- Clot-dissolving medicines for heart attack or stroke
- Dysarthria
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Lowering the risk of having a stroke
- Medicines after an ischemic stroke
- Recovery after stroke
- Stroke
- Stroke rehabilitation exercises
- Stroke – Discharge instructions
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Taking care of someone after a stroke
- Thickening liquids
- Transient ischemic attack
Tests and procedures
- Ambulatory heart monitoring
- Angiography
- Angiography – Discharge instructions
- Aortic aneurysm repair
- Aortic aneurysm repair – Discharge instructions
- Arterial line placement
- B-type natriuretic peptide test
- Blood pressure measurement
- Cardiac catheterization
- Cardiac catheterization – Discharge instructions
- Cardioversion
- Cardioversion – Discharge instructions
- Catheter ablation for the heart – Discharge instructions
- Choosing surgical treatment for heart failure
- Computed tomographic angiography
- Duplex ultrasound
- ECG and stress test
- Echocardiogram
- Exercises after open heart surgery
- How to protect the chest after heart surgery
- IVC filter placement
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator insertion
- Left atrial appendage closure
- Left atrial appendage closure – Discharge instructions
- Nuclear heart testing
- Port insertion
- Pulmonary artery catheterization
- Stenting for the heart – Discharge instructions
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation – Discharge instructions
- Transesophageal echocardiogram
- Troponin test
- Vagal maneuvers
Vascular access
- Central line catheter insertion
- How to care for a central line catheter
- How to care for a midline IV catheter
- How to care for a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC)
- How to care for a port
- IV infiltration
- Lowering the risk of a central line infection
- Midline IV catheter insertion
- Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) insertion
- Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) removal
- Port insertion
- Port removal
- Saline lock
- What to watch for when you have an IV
Venous disease
- Angioplasty and stents for peripheral artery disease
- Carotid endarterectomy – Discharge instructions
- Peripheral angioplasty – Discharge instructions
- Peripheral artery disease and claudication
- Superficial vein phlebitis and thrombosis
- Varicose veins and other vein disease in the legs
- Vein ablation
Home health
Equipment
- How to care for a closed suction drain
- How to use a PAP device
- How to use a cane
- How to use a nebulizer
- How to use a pulse oximeter
- How to use a walker
- Infusion pumps
- Oxygen therapy at home
General home health
- Caring for someone after a hypoxic brain injury
- Changing positions safely
- Enteral (tube) feeding
- Hazardous medicine safety at home
- How to use a sliding board
- Pureed diet
- Taking opioids safely
Procedures
- Blood pressure measurement
- Caring for an open wound
- Checking your blood sugar at home
- How to care for a G tube or G button
- How to care for a chest tube or catheter
- How to care for a hemodialysis catheter
- How to care for a nasogastric tube
- How to care for a nephrostomy tube
- How to care for a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC)
- How to care for a peritoneal dialysis catheter
- How to care for a suprapubic catheter
- How to care for a tracheostomy
- How to care for a urinary catheter
- How to care for an abdominal drainage catheter
- How to care for an ostomy
- How to change a dressing
- How to give a subcutaneous injection
- How to give a tube feeding
- How to give an anticoagulant shot
- How to give an enema
- How to give an insulin shot
- How to give an intramuscular injection
- How to put in a child's nasogastric tube
- How to put on and take off compression stockings
- How to take a sitz bath
- How to take a temperature
- How to use a nebulizer
- How to use a pen injector
- How to use a skin patch
- How to use an autoinjector
- How to use an incentive spirometer
- How to use an insulin pen
- How to use ear drops
- How to use eye medicines
- How to use nasal medicines
- How to use rectal medicines
- How to use topical medicines
- How to use vaginal medicines
- How to wash your hands
- How to weigh yourself
- Living with a colostomy
- Living with an ileostomy
- Stool collection for testing
Hormones
Adrenal cancer
Adrenal disorders
- Addison disease
- Adrenal crisis
- Adrenal crisis – Discharge instructions
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Cushing syndrome
- Pheochromocytoma
Androgen deficiency
- Androgen replacement in men
- Low testosterone in males
Birth control
- Barrier and pericoital methods of birth control
- Birth control after having a baby
- Choosing birth control
- Emergency contraception
- Hormonal birth control
- IUD placement
- IUD removal
- Intrauterine devices (IUDs)
- Long-acting methods of birth control
- Permanent birth control for women
- Tubal ligation
- Tubal ligation – Discharge instructions
- Vasectomy
Breast enlargement in men
- Gynecomastia (male breast development)
Endometriosis
- Endometriosis
- Uterine adenomyosis
Growth hormone
- Growth hormone treatment in adults
Growth, puberty, and sexual health
- Androgen replacement in men
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Early puberty
- Late puberty
- My child is short
- Normal puberty
- Preparing a child for day care or preschool
- Teen pregnancy
- Teen sexuality
- Turner syndrome
- Vaginitis in children
- Weight and health in children
- Well-child exam
Hirsutism
- Hirsutism (excess hair growth in women)
Menopause
- Bleeding after menopause
- Calcium and vitamin D for bone health
- Hormone therapy for menopause
- Menopause
- Perimenopause
- Primary ovarian insufficiency
- Vaginal dryness
Menstrual cycle
- Absent or irregular periods
- Bleeding between periods
- Endometrial ablation
- Heavy periods
- Menstruation
- Painful periods
- Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
Metabolic syndrome
Paget's disease
Parathyroid disorders
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Primary hyperparathyroidism
Pituitary disorders
- Acromegaly
- Panhypopituitarism
- Pituitary adenoma
- Prolactinoma
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
Premature ovarian failure
- Primary ovarian insufficiency
Sexual problems
Sports performance enhancement
- Hormones to boost sports performance: Risks and side effects
Thyroid cancer
- Seroma
- Thyroid biopsy
- Thyroid biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Thyroid cancer
Thyroid disorders
- Free T4 test
- Graves' disease
- Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid)
- Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid) and pregnancy
- Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid)
- Low-iodine diet
- Nodular goiter
- Radioiodine treatment for hyperthyroidism
- T3 tests
- Thyroglobulin test
- Thyroid nodules
- Thyroid uptake and scan
- Thyroid-stimulating hormone test
- Thyroidectomy
- Thyroidectomy – Discharge instructions
- Thyroiditis
- Thyroiditis after pregnancy
Transgender health care
Infections and vaccines
Animal borne disease
- Animal and human bites
- Cat scratch disease
- Leptospirosis
- Psittacosis
- Rabies
Antibiotics and drug resistance
- Carbapenem-resistant enterobacterales
- Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase infection
- MRSA screening test
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- Multidrug-resistant organisms
- Vancomycin-resistant enterococci
- What you should know about antibiotics
Central line infections
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Diarrhea
- C. difficile infection
- Diarrhea in children
- Diarrhea in teens and adults
- E. coli diarrhea
- Giardia
- Lactose intolerance
Endocarditis
Eye infections
- Cellulitis around the eye
- Conjunctivitis (pink eye)
Fever
- Fever in adults – Discharge instructions
- Fever of unknown origin
- When to worry about a fever in adults
Food poisoning
- Campylobacter infection
- E. coli diarrhea
- Enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever
- Food poisoning
- Gastroenteritis in babies and children
- Listeria infection
- Nausea and vomiting in adults
- Rotavirus infection
- Salmonella infection
- Viral gastroenteritis in adults
Fungal infections
- Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis
- Cryptococcosis
- Fungal nail infections
- Histoplasmosis
- Invasive aspergillosis
- Thrush in adults
- Valley Fever (coccidioidomycosis)
Head and neck infections
- Ear infections in adults
- Ear infections in children
- Ear tubes
- Mastoiditis
- Outer ear infection
- Parotitis
- Ruptured eardrum
- Sinusitis in adults
- Sinusitis in children
Hepatitis
- Exposure to HIV or hepatitis through blood or body fluids
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Preventing HIV after a possible exposure
- Treatment for hepatitis C
HIV and AIDS
- Exposure to HIV or hepatitis through blood or body fluids
- HIV and AIDS
- HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Preventing HIV after a possible exposure
- Starting treatment for HIV
- Taking medicines to prevent HIV before exposure
- Tests to monitor HIV
- Vaccines for adults with HIV
Infection control
- How to wash your hands
- Isolation precautions
- Lowering the risk of a catheter-associated urinary tract infection
- Lowering the risk of a central line infection
- Lowering the risk of a surgical site infection
- Lowering the risk of spreading infection
- Preventing infection after splenectomy
Insect borne disease
- Dengue fever
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Joint infection
Meningitis
- Bacterial meningitis
- Bacterial meningitis in adults – Discharge instructions
- Encephalitis
- Meningitis in children
- Viral meningitis
- Viral meningitis in adults – Discharge instructions
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
- Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
Osteomyelitis
- Osteomyelitis in adults
- Osteomyelitis in children
Parasites
- Chagas disease
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Giardia
- Pinworms
Pregnancy
- Avoiding infections in pregnancy
- Group B strep and pregnancy
Respiratory tract infections
- Acute bronchitis in adults
- Aspiration pneumonia
- Aspiration pneumonia – Discharge instructions
- Bronchiectasis in adults
- Bronchiolitis and RSV in babies and children
- COVID-19 and children
- COVID-19 and pregnancy
- COVID-19 in adults – Discharge instructions
- COVID-19 in children – Discharge instructions
- COVID-19 overview
- COVID-19 tests
- COVID-19 vaccines
- Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis
- Community-acquired pneumonia in adults
- Cough in adults
- Cough in children
- Cough, runny nose, and colds
- Coughing up blood
- Enterovirus D68
- Flu in adults – Discharge instructions
- Flu in children – Discharge instructions
- Histoplasmosis
- Hospital-acquired pneumonia
- Invasive aspergillosis
- Long COVID
- Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- Mycoplasma pneumonia in children
- Pneumocystis pneumonia
- Pneumonia in adults
- Pneumonia in adults – Discharge instructions
- Pneumonia in children
- Pneumonia in children – Discharge instructions
- Pneumonitis
- RSV in adults – Discharge instructions
- Upper respiratory infection in adults – Discharge instructions
- Upper respiratory infection in babies and children – Discharge instructions
- Valley Fever (coccidioidomycosis)
- Whooping cough in babies and children
- Whooping cough in teens and adults
Sepsis
- Blood culture
- Sepsis in adults
- Sepsis in adults – Discharge instructions
- Sepsis in babies and children
Sexually transmitted infections
- Anogenital warts
- Care after sexual assault
- Cervical dysplasia
- Chlamydia and gonorrhea
- Chlamydia – Discharge instructions
- Colposcopy
- Congenital syphilis
- Genital herpes
- Gonorrhea – Discharge instructions
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
- Mycoplasma genitalium
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Syphilis
- Syphilis blood test
- Trichomoniasis
- Urethritis
Skin infections
- Bacterial folliculitis
- Bacterial wound culture
- Boil
- Cellulitis (skin infection) in adults – Discharge instructions
- Cellulitis (skin infection) in children – Discharge instructions
- Cellulitis and erysipelas (skin infections)
- Cellulitis around the eye – Discharge instructions
- Cold sores (oral herpes)
- Gangrene
- Herpetic whitlow
- Impetigo
- Itchy skin
- Laceration infection
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Paronychia
- Pilonidal cyst
- Ringworm, athlete's foot, and jock itch
- Skin abscess
- Skin abscess drainage
- Skin abscess drainage – Discharge instructions
- Tinea nigra
- Tinea versicolor
Sore throat and strep throat
- Scarlet fever
- Sore throat in adults
- Sore throat in children
- Strep throat in adults
- Strep throat in children
- Swollen lymph nodes in adults
Tests and procedures
- Chickenpox and shingles blood test
- Fluid culture
- Fungal culture
- HIV blood test
- Herpes tests
- Sputum culture
Travel precautions
- COVID-19 and children
- COVID-19 and pregnancy
- COVID-19 overview
- COVID-19 vaccines
- Dengue fever
- Ebola
- Malaria
- Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- Travelers' diarrhea
- Vaccines for travel
- Zika virus infection
Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis screening tests
- Tuberculosis vaccine (BCG)
- Tuberculosis – Discharge instructions
Urinary tract infections
- Asymptomatic bacteriuria
- Hemochromatosis
- Lowering the risk of a catheter-associated urinary tract infection
- Urinalysis
- Urinary tract infection – Discharge instructions
- Urinary tract infections in adults
- Urinary tract infections in children
- Urinary tract infections in pregnancy
- Urine culture
- Vesicoureteral reflux in adults
Vaccines
- COVID-19 vaccines
- Flu vaccine
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
- Measles
- Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine
- Mumps
- Poliomyelitis
- Rubella
- Shingles
- Tdap vaccine
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis vaccine (BCG)
- Vaccines and pregnancy
- Vaccines for adults
- Vaccines for adults with HIV
- Vaccines for babies and children age 0 to 6 years
- Vaccines for children age 7 to 18 years
- Vaccines for travel
- What you should know about vaccines
- Whooping cough in teens and adults
Viral infections
- Acute flaccid myelitis
- Adenovirus infections
- Bird flu (avian influenza)
- Bronchiolitis and RSV in babies and children
- COVID-19 and children
- COVID-19 and pregnancy
- COVID-19 in adults – Discharge instructions
- COVID-19 overview
- COVID-19 tests
- Chickenpox
- Cough, runny nose, and colds
- Croup
- Cytomegalovirus
- Enterovirus D68
- Erythema infectiosum (fifth disease)
- Flu
- Flu in adults – Discharge instructions
- Long COVID
- Measles
- Mononucleosis
- Mpox (monkeypox)
- Mumps
- Poliomyelitis
- Rubella
- Shingles
- Viral culture
- Viral meningitis in children – Discharge instructions
- Viral skin rash – Discharge instructions
Kidneys and urinary system
Bladder cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Bladder instillation
- Transurethral resection of a bladder tumor
- Transurethral resection of a bladder tumor – Discharge instructions
Bladder problems
- Bladder instillation
- Bladder spasm
- Bladder training
- Botulinum toxin injections
- Cystoscopy
- Cystoscopy – Discharge instructions
- How to care for a suprapubic catheter
- How to care for a urinary catheter
- Urinary catheter placement
- Urinary retention
- Urinary retention – Discharge instructions
Blood in the urine
- Blood in the urine (hematuria) in adults
Diabetic kidney disease
- Kidney disease caused by diabetes
Diet and kidney health
- Dialysis and diet
- Low-potassium diet
- Low-sodium diet
Fluid and electrolytes
- Arginine vasopressin disorders
- Fasting ketosis and alcoholic ketoacidosis
- Fluid restriction
- Hyperkalemia
- Hypokalemia
- Hyponatremia
- Hypovolemia in adults
- Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH)
Glomerular disease
- Glomerular disease
- IgA nephropathy
Hydronephrosis
- Hydronephrosis in adults
- Hydronephrosis in babies
Interstitial nephritis
- Acute interstitial nephritis
Kidney cancer
- Bone metastases
- Brain metastases
- Kidney biopsy
- Kidney biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Kidney cancer
Kidney failure and dialysis
- Acute kidney injury
- Arteriovenous vascular access for hemodialysis
- Bone problems caused by kidney disease
- Choosing between dialysis and kidney transplant
- Chronic kidney disease
- Dialysis and diet
- Diet for people with nondialysis chronic kidney disease
- End-stage kidney disease (kidney failure)
- Fistulogram of hemodialysis access
- Fluid restriction
- Hemodialysis
- Hemodialysis catheter placement
- How to care for a hemodialysis catheter
- How to care for a peritoneal dialysis catheter
- Kidney transplant
- Low-potassium diet
- Medicines for chronic kidney disease
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Peritoneal dialysis
- Peritoneal dialysis catheter placement
- Peritoneal dialysis catheter placement – Discharge instructions
- Planning for a kidney transplant
- Preparing for hemodialysis
Kidney stones
- Flank pain
- How to care for a nephrostomy tube
- Kidney stone diet
- Kidney stones in adults
- Kidney stones in children
- Lithotripsy for kidney stones
- Lithotripsy for kidney stones – Discharge instructions
- Ureteral stent placement
- Ureteral stent placement – Discharge instructions
- Ureteral stent removal
Kidney/urinary tract surgery
- Ureteral stent placement
- Ureteroscopy
- Ureteroscopy – Discharge instructions
Polycystic kidney disease
- Polycystic kidney disease
Swelling
Tests and procedures
- Circumcision in adults
- Intravenous pyelogram
- Nephrectomy
- Nephrectomy – Discharge instructions
- Percutaneous nephrolithotomy
- Percutaneous nephrolithotomy – Discharge instructions
- Peritoneal dialysis catheter placement – Discharge instructions
- Retrograde pyelogram
Urinary incontinence
- Bladder spasm
- Bladder training
- Deciding about surgery for stress urinary incontinence in females
- How to use a catheter to empty the bladder in females
- How to use a catheter to empty the bladder in males
- Neurogenic bladder in adults
- Pelvic floor muscle exercises
- Surgery for stress urinary incontinence in females
- Surgery for stress urinary incontinence in females – Discharge instructions
- Treatments for urgency incontinence in females
- Urinary incontinence in females
- Urinary incontinence in males
Urinary tract infections
- Asymptomatic bacteriuria
- Hemochromatosis
- Lowering the risk of a catheter-associated urinary tract infection
- Urinalysis
- Urinary tract infection – Discharge instructions
- Urinary tract infections in adults
- Urinary tract infections in children
- Urinary tract infections in pregnancy
- Urine culture
- Vesicoureteral reflux in adults
Urine collection
- How to remove a urinary catheter
- Percutaneous nephrostomy
- Suprapubic catheter placement
- Urinary catheter placement
Laboratory and diagnostic tests
Imaging tests
- CT scan
- Computed tomographic angiography
- Cystatin C test
- Incidental findings on imaging tests
- Intravenous pyelogram
- MRI scan
- Pelvic ultrasound
- Retrograde pyelogram
- Ultrasound
- X-ray
Laboratory tests
- 24-hour urine collection
- Activated clotting time
- Albumin blood test
- Aldosterone test
- Alkaline phosphatase test
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin testing
- Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker test
- Aminotransferase tests
- Ammonia blood test
- Amylase test
- Antinuclear antibodies
- Arterial blood gas test
- B-type natriuretic peptide test
- Basic metabolic panel
- Bicarbonate test
- Bilirubin test
- Blood culture
- Blood ethanol concentration
- Blood glucose tests
- Blood type test
- Blood urea nitrogen test
- C-reactive protein test
- CA 125 test
- CA 19-9 test
- Calcium blood test
- Carcinoembryonic antigen blood test
- Cell-free DNA prenatal screening
- Chickenpox and shingles blood test
- Cholesterol tests
- Clotting factor blood test
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Comprehensive metabolic panel
- Coombs test
- Cortisol test
- Cytology
- D-dimer test
- Electrolyte panel
- Eosinophil count
- Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
- Estrogen blood test
- Ferritin test
- Follicle-stimulating hormone test
- Free T4 test
- Growth hormone testing
- H. pylori tests
- HIV blood test
- Hemoglobin and hematocrit tests
- Hepatitis C viral load test
- Herpes tests
- Homocysteine blood test
- Hypercalcemia
- Immunoglobulin blood test
- Iron studies panel
- Lead levels in adults
- Lipase test
- Liver panel
- Luteinizing hormone test
- Lyme disease tests
- MRSA screening test
- Magnesium test
- Maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein test
- Measles, mumps, and rubella blood tests
- Mononucleosis test
- Neutrophil count
- Newborn screening
- Ova and parasite test
- Partial thromboplastin time test
- Platelet count
- Potassium test
- Prealbumin blood test
- Pregnancy tests
- Procalcitonin test
- Progesterone test
- Prolactin blood test
- Quadruple test
- Renal function panel
- Reticulocyte count test
- Rheumatoid factor test
- Semen collection
- Serum creatinine test
- Serum protein electrophoresis and immunofixation
- Sodium test
- Sputum culture
- Stool DNA test
- Syphilis blood test
- T3 tests
- Testosterone test
- Thyroglobulin test
- Thyroid-stimulating hormone test
- Triglyceride test
- Troponin test
- Understanding lab test results
- Uric acid blood test
- Urinalysis
- Urine albumin test
- Urine culture
- Urine osmolality test
- Urine protein electrophoresis and immunofixation
- Viral culture
- Vitamin B12 and folate blood test
- Vitamin D blood test
- White blood cell differential
- HCG blood test
Other diagnostic tests
- 24-hour pH monitoring
- Abdominal ultrasound
- Audiometry
- Biopsy
- Bone scan
- Carotid ultrasound
- Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
- Endometrial biopsy
- Endoscopic ultrasound
- Fecal immunochemical test
- Fungal culture
- Group B strep screening
- HIDA scan
- Lung biopsy
- Lung biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Magnetic resonance angiography
- Myelogram
- Nerve conduction and electromyography (EMG) tests
- PET scan
- Patch testing
- Pelvic exam
- Prenatal ultrasound
- Pulmonary artery catheterization
- Spirometry
- Stool collection for testing
- Tests for strep throat
- Thoracentesis
- Thyroid uptake and scan
- Tuberculosis screening tests
- Ultrasound
- Upper gastrointestinal series and esophagram
Liver disease
Cirrhosis
- Acute liver failure in adults
- Cirrhosis
- Diet for adults with cirrhosis
- Esophageal varices
- Fluid in the belly from cirrhosis (ascites)
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- How to care for an abdominal drainage catheter
- Jaundice in adults
- Liver biopsy
- Liver biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Liver transplant
- Primary biliary cholangitis
Gallstones and gallbladder problems
- Cholecystectomy
- Cholecystectomy – Discharge instructions
- Choosing surgery to treat gallstones
- Gallstones
- Gallstones – Discharge instructions
- Lithotripsy of bile or pancreatic duct stones
- Lithotripsy of bile or pancreatic duct stones – Discharge instructions
Gilbert's syndrome
Hemochromatosis
Hepatitis
- Drug-induced hepatitis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Jaundice in adults
- Treatment for hepatitis C
- Viral hepatitis panel
Liver cancer
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Liver biopsy
- Liver biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Liver cancer
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
- Acute liver failure in adults
- Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
Tests and procedures
- Liver biopsy
- Liver biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Liver elastography
Lung disease
Adult respiratory distress syndrome
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome in adults – Discharge instructions
Asthma
- Asthma action plan for adults
- Asthma action plan for children
- Asthma and pregnancy
- Asthma in adults
- Asthma in adults – Discharge instructions
- Asthma in children
- Asthma in children – Discharge instructions
- Avoiding asthma and allergy triggers
- Exercise-induced asthma
- How to use a nebulizer
- How to use a peak flow meter
- How to use your child's dry powder inhaler
- How to use your child's metered dose inhaler
- How to use your dry powder inhaler (adults)
- How to use your metered dose inhaler (adults)
- How to use your soft mist inhaler (adults)
- Inhaled corticosteroid medicines
- Medicines for asthma
- Oral steroid medicines
- Spirometry
- Wheezing in adults
Atelectasis
Blood clots in the legs or lungs
- Angiography
- D-dimer test
- Deep vein thrombosis (blood clot in the arm)
- Deep vein thrombosis (blood clot in the leg)
- Deep vein thrombosis – Discharge instructions
- IVC filter placement
- Intermittent pneumatic compression devices
- Lowering the risk of a blood clot
- Pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung)
- Pulmonary embolism – Discharge instructions
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Breathing exercises
- COPD and diet
- COPD exacerbation
- COPD exacerbation – Discharge instructions
- Chronic bronchitis
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – Discharge instructions
- Inhaled corticosteroid medicines
- Lowering your risk of COPD
- Lung transplant
- Medicines for COPD
Cystic fibrosis
- Bronchiectasis in children
Interstitial lung disease
- Asbestos exposure
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
- Sarcoidosis
Lung cancer
- Bone metastases
- Brain metastases
- Lung cancer
- Lung cancer screening
- Neuroendocrine neoplasms
- Non-small cell lung cancer
- Pleural mesothelioma
- Small cell lung cancer
Lung transplant
Pleural disorders
- Chest tubes and catheters
- Pleural effusion
- Pleural effusion – Discharge instructions
- Pleuritic chest pain
- Pneumothorax (collapsed lung)
- Pneumothorax (collapsed lung) – Discharge instructions
Pulmonary nodules
- Multiple pulmonary nodules
- Pulmonary nodule
Quitting smoking
- Harmful health effects of smoking
- Quitting smoking for adults
- Quitting smoking for teens
- Secondhand smoke and adults
Respiratory tract infections
- Acute bronchitis in adults
- Aspiration pneumonia
- Aspiration pneumonia – Discharge instructions
- Bronchiectasis in adults
- Bronchiolitis and RSV in babies and children
- COVID-19 and children
- COVID-19 and pregnancy
- COVID-19 in adults – Discharge instructions
- COVID-19 in children – Discharge instructions
- COVID-19 overview
- COVID-19 tests
- COVID-19 vaccines
- Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis
- Community-acquired pneumonia in adults
- Cough in adults
- Cough in children
- Cough, runny nose, and colds
- Coughing up blood
- Enterovirus D68
- Flu in adults – Discharge instructions
- Flu in children – Discharge instructions
- Histoplasmosis
- Hospital-acquired pneumonia
- Invasive aspergillosis
- Long COVID
- Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- Mycoplasma pneumonia in children
- Pneumocystis pneumonia
- Pneumonia in adults
- Pneumonia in adults – Discharge instructions
- Pneumonia in children
- Pneumonia in children – Discharge instructions
- Pneumonitis
- RSV in adults – Discharge instructions
- Upper respiratory infection in adults – Discharge instructions
- Upper respiratory infection in babies and children – Discharge instructions
- Valley Fever (coccidioidomycosis)
- Whooping cough in babies and children
- Whooping cough in teens and adults
Shortness of breath
Tests and procedures
- Arterial blood gas test
- Breathing tests
- Breathing tubes and ventilators
- Chest tubes and catheters
- Diagnostic bronchoscopy
- Endobronchial ultrasound
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
- How to care for a chest tube or catheter
- How to use a pulse oximeter
- How to use an incentive spirometer
- Inhaled nitric oxide
- Lung biopsy
- Lung biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Minimally invasive thoracic surgery
- Oxygen therapy at home
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Spirometry
- Thoracentesis
Tracheostomy
- Emergency care for infants and children with a tracheostomy
- How to care for a tracheostomy
- Tracheostomy
Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis screening tests
- Tuberculosis vaccine (BCG)
- Tuberculosis – Discharge instructions
Mental health
Anxiety disorders
- Anxiety in children and teens
- Coping in times of crisis
- Coping with worry and stress
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Panic attack – Discharge instructions
- Panic disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Social anxiety disorder
- Stress
Bipolar disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Bipolar disorder – Discharge instructions
Depression
- Commonly used medicines for depression
- Depression during and after pregnancy
- Depression during and after pregnancy – Discharge instructions
- Depression in adults
- Depression in adults – Discharge instructions
- Depression in children and teens
- Depression in children and teens – Discharge instructions
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Exercise and other activities to help with depression
- Grief in adults
- Persistent depressive disorder
- Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
- Screening for depression in adults
- Screening for depression in children and teens
- Seasonal affective disorder
- Suicide prevention
- Tricyclic antidepressants
- When you have depression and another health problem
Eating disorders
- Anorexia nervosa
- Bulimia nervosa
- Eating disorders
- Malnutrition
- Malnutrition – Discharge instructions
Personality disorders
- Adjustment disorder
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Psychosis – Discharge instructions
Schizophrenia
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Schizoaffective disorder – Discharge instructions
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia – Discharge instructions
- Tardive dyskinesia
Substance use and misuse
- Alcohol poisoning
- Alcohol use disorder – Discharge instructions
- Alcohol use – When is drinking a problem?
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Blood ethanol concentration
- Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome
- Cannabis use disorder
- Chemical ingestion in adults
- Cocaine use disorder
- How to give naloxone
- Managing acute pain at home
- Medical cannabis
- Opioid overdose
- Opioid use disorder
- Opioid withdrawal – ED discharge instructions
- Prescription drug misuse
- Quitting smoking for adults
- Smokeless tobacco
- Substance use disorder
- Taking opioids safely
- Treatment for substance use disorder
- Vaping
Treatment
Nutrition, diet, and weight
Healthy diet
- Controlling your blood pressure through lifestyle
- DASH diet
- Diet and health
- Healthy eating for children 2 to 12 years old
- Healthy eating for teens
- Heart-healthy diet
- High-fiber diet
- Losing weight through diet
- Low-fat diet
- Making healthy choices when eating out
Movement and exercise
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Controlling your blood pressure through lifestyle
- Exercise and heart failure
- Exercise and movement
- Exercise and movement as you get older
- Exercise and other activities to help with depression
- Exercises after open heart surgery
- Exercises for sciatic pain
- Neck exercises
- Physical activity for people with arthritis
- Walking for health
Nutrient deficiencies
- Good food sources of iron
- Hypomagnesemia
- Malnutrition
- Malnutrition – Discharge instructions
- Vitamin B12 deficiency and folate deficiency
- Vitamin D deficiency
Nutrition
- Enteral (tube) feeding
- Failure to thrive in adults
- How to care for a G tube or G button
- Parenteral nutrition
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) in adults
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) – Discharge instructions
- Surgical gastrostomy
- Surgical gastrostomy – Discharge instructions
Special diets
- Bland diet
- Clear liquid diet
- Controlling your blood pressure through lifestyle
- DASH diet
- Diabetes and diet
- Diet after weight loss surgery
- Diet for adults with cirrhosis
- Diet for inflammatory bowel disease in adults
- Diet for people with nondialysis chronic kidney disease
- Full liquid diet
- Gluten-free diet
- High-calorie, high-protein diet
- High-fiber diet
- High-potassium diet
- Ileostomy diet
- Ketogenic diet
- Ketogenic diet and your child
- Kidney stone diet
- Low-FODMAP diet
- Low-bacteria diet
- Low-carbohydrate diet
- Low-fat diet
- Low-fiber diet
- Low-iodine diet
- Low-potassium diet
- Low-purine diet
- Low-sodium diet
- Low-tyramine diet
- Mediterranean diet
- Parenteral nutrition
- Pureed diet
- Soft diet
- Thickening liquids
- Vegetarian or vegan diet
- Warfarin and your diet
Vitamins and supplements
- Probiotics
- Vitamin B12 deficiency and folate deficiency
- Vitamin D for babies and children
- Vitamin supplements
Weight and health
- Care after weight loss surgery
- Diet after weight loss surgery
- Dumping syndrome
- Eating disorders
- Health risks of obesity
- How to weigh yourself
- Keeping track of your weight
- Lipedema
- Losing weight through diet
- Understanding body mass index (BMI)
- Weight and health in children
- Weight loss medicines
- Weight loss surgery
- Weight loss treatments
Weight loss surgery
- Dumping syndrome
- Gastric bypass
- Gastric bypass – Discharge instructions
- Gastric sleeve
- Gastric sleeve – Discharge instructions
- Weight loss surgery
Pregnancy and childbirth
Alcohol, smoking, and drug use
- Alcohol and drug use in pregnancy
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Smoking in pregnancy
Breastfeeding
- Benefits of breast milk for premature babies
- Breastfeeding
- Common breastfeeding problems
- Deciding to breastfeed
- Health and nutrition during breastfeeding
- Mastitis
- Medicines and breastfeeding
- Pumping and storing breast milk
- Skin-to-skin care with your newborn
- Weaning from breastfeeding
Complications
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
- Bleeding in early pregnancy
- Bleeding in early pregnancy – Discharge instructions
- Bleeding in late pregnancy
- Breech pregnancy
- Cervical insufficiency
- Cesarean birth – Discharge instructions
- Coping after pregnancy loss
- Depression during and after pregnancy – Discharge instructions
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Ectopic pregnancy – Discharge instructions
- External cephalic version
- Gestational diabetes
- Group B strep in babies
- HELLP syndrome
- High blood pressure and pregnancy
- High-risk pregnancy
- Hyperemesis gravidarum – Discharge instructions
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- Obesity and pregnancy
- Placenta previa
- Placental abruption
- Preeclampsia
- Pregnancy as you get older
- Pregnancy in Rh-negative people
- Pregnancy loss
- Pregnancy loss – Discharge instructions
- Preventing injuries during pregnancy
- Red blood cell antibody screening
- Repeat pregnancy loss
- Stillbirth
- Stillbirth – Discharge instructions
- Triplets and multiples
Infections
- Avoiding infections in pregnancy
- Group B strep and pregnancy
- Group B strep screening
- Urinary tract infections in pregnancy
- Vaccines and pregnancy
Labor and delivery
- Anesthesia for cesarean birth
- Breech pregnancy
- Cesarean birth
- Cesarean birth – Discharge instructions
- Epidural injection
- Fetal monitoring during labor
- How to tell when labor starts
- Labor and childbirth
- Labor induction
- Managing pain during labor and childbirth
- Postpartum hemorrhage
- Preparing for childbirth
- Shoulder dystocia
- Skin-to-skin care with your newborn
- Vaginal birth after a cesarean
- Vaginal birth – Discharge instructions
- Vaginal tearing during childbirth
Newborns
- Apgar score
- Bilirubin test
- Bottle feeding your baby
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
- Car seat safety
- Caring for your newborn
- Circumcision in babies and children
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Congenital hypothyroidism
- Congenital syphilis
- Coping while caring for a newborn
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Fever in babies younger than 3 months
- Hemangioma
- How to put your baby down to sleep
- Hypospadias
- Hypoxic brain injury
- Intraventricular hemorrhage in newborns
- Jaundice in babies
- Jaundice in babies – Discharge instructions
- Newborn appearance
- Newborn hypoglycemia
- Newborn necrotizing enterocolitis
- Newborn screening
- Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
- Phototherapy
- Premature baby – Discharge instructions
- Retinopathy of prematurity
- Routine treatments for newborn babies
- Safe sleep for babies
- Screening for hearing loss in newborns
- Should I have my baby circumcised?
- Shoulder dystocia
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in children
- Transient tachypnea of the newborn
- Undescended testes
- What to expect in the NICU
- When a baby is born premature
Postpartum
- Birth control after having a baby
- How to take a sitz bath
- Skin-to-skin care with your newborn
- Stopping lactation after giving birth
- Watching for problems after giving birth
Postpartum depression
- Depression during and after pregnancy
- Depression during and after pregnancy – Discharge instructions
Postterm pregnancy
- When your baby is overdue
Preexisting disease
- Asthma and pregnancy
- Care during pregnancy for people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes
- Epilepsy and pregnancy
- Lupus and pregnancy
- Rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy
Pregnancy symptoms
- Acid reflux and GERD during pregnancy
- Hyperemesis gravidarum
- Morning sickness
- Pregnancy symptoms
- Pregnancy tests
- HCG blood test
Pregnancy termination (abortion)
- Deciding to have an abortion
- Medication abortion
- Procedural abortion
Prenatal care
- Activity during pregnancy
- Alcohol and drug use in pregnancy
- Amniocentesis
- Cell-free DNA prenatal screening
- Chorionic villus sampling
- Depression during and after pregnancy – Discharge instructions
- Genetic testing
- Having twins
- Healthy weight gain during pregnancy
- Hydronephrosis in babies
- Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid) and pregnancy
- Lead poisoning
- Maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein test
- Nutrition before and during pregnancy
- Pregnancy in Rh-negative people
- Prenatal care
- Prenatal ultrasound
- Quadruple test
- Red blood cell antibody screening
- Smoking in pregnancy
- Spina bifida
- Taking medicines during pregnancy
- Teen pregnancy
- Testing for Down syndrome during pregnancy
- When your baby is measuring large during pregnancy
- When your baby is measuring small during pregnancy
- Your baby's movement before birth
Preparing for pregnancy
- Activity during pregnancy
- Alcohol and drug use in pregnancy
- How to plan and prepare for a healthy pregnancy
- Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid) and pregnancy
- Preparing for pregnancy when you have diabetes
- Smoking in pregnancy
- Spina bifida
- Teen pregnancy
- Vaccines and pregnancy
Preterm labor
- Premature baby – Discharge instructions
- Preterm labor
- Preterm prelabor rupture of membranes
Senior health
Arthritis
- Deciding to have a hip replacement
- Deciding to have a knee replacement
- Hip pain in adults
- Physical activity for people with arthritis
End of life
- Advance directives
- How to tell when death is near
- Medical care during advanced illness
- Palliative care
Hearing loss
- Age-related hearing loss (presbycusis)
Incontinence
- Deciding about surgery for stress urinary incontinence in females
- Fecal incontinence
- Treatments for urgency incontinence in females
- Urinary incontinence in females
- Urinary incontinence in males
Managing medicines
- Acetaminophen poisoning
- Brand versus generic medicines
- Coping with high drug prices
- Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs)
- Drug allergy
- How to take anticoagulants safely
- Managing acute pain at home
- Managing dizziness from your medicines
- Managing higher risk of falls from your medicines
- Managing low blood pressure from your medicines
- Managing nausea from your medicines
- Managing poor appetite from your medicines
- Medicines after a heart attack
- Medicines after an ischemic stroke
- Medicines for Parkinson disease
- Medicines for angina
- Medicines for asthma
- Medicines for atrial fibrillation
- Medicines for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Medicines for high blood pressure
- Medicines for osteoporosis
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Oral steroid medicines
- Prescription drug misuse
- Routine physical for adults
- Serotonin syndrome
- Side effects from medicines
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Taking medicines when you're older
- Taking opioids safely
- What you should know about antibiotics
- Why taking your medicine as prescribed is important
Managing multiple health conditions
- Chronic pain
- Failure to thrive in adults
- Weakness
- When you have multiple health problems
Memory loss and dementia
- Caring for someone with Alzheimer disease or dementia
- Delirium (confusion)
- Dementia (including Alzheimer disease)
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Evaluating memory and thinking problems
- HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders
- Mild cognitive impairment
Osteoporosis
- Bone density testing
- Calcium and vitamin D for bone health
- Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
- Hip fracture
- Kyphosis in adults
- Medicines for osteoporosis
- Osteoporosis and osteopenia (low bone mass)
- Preventing falls in adults
- Vertebral compression fracture
- Vitamin D deficiency
Pressure sores
Preventive healthcare
- Breast cancer screening
- Cancer screening
- Cervical cancer screening tests
- Colon and rectal cancer screening
- Colon polyps
- Colonoscopy
- Lung cancer screening
- Ovarian cancer screening
- Preventive health care for older adults
- Prostate cancer screening (PSA tests)
- Time to stop driving?
Safety
- Elder abuse
- Preventing falls in adults
- Time to stop driving?
Sex
Vision loss
- Age-related macular degeneration
- Age-related vision loss
- Capsulotomy after cataract surgery
- Cataracts
- Diabetic retinopathy
- Open-angle glaucoma
- Presbyopia and refractive errors
Sexual and reproductive health
Birth control
- Barrier and pericoital methods of birth control
- Birth control after having a baby
- Choosing birth control
- Emergency contraception
- Hormonal birth control
- IUD placement
- IUD removal
- Intrauterine devices (IUDs)
- Long-acting methods of birth control
- Permanent birth control for women
- Tubal ligation
- Tubal ligation – Discharge instructions
- Vasectomy
Breast cancer
- Bone metastases
- Brain metastases
- Breast biopsy
- Breast biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Breast cancer
- Breast cancer screening
- Breast reconstruction
- Breast reconstruction – Discharge instructions
- Breast ultrasound
- Choosing surgical treatment for early-stage breast cancer
- Common breast problems
- Deciding about breast reconstruction after mastectomy
- Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
- Genetic testing for breast, ovarian, prostate, and pancreatic cancer
- Inflammatory breast cancer
- Lowering the risk of breast cancer
- Lumpectomy
- Lumpectomy – Discharge instructions
- Lymphedema
- Mammogram
- Mastectomy
- Mastectomy – Discharge instructions
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer
- Seroma
Breast concerns
Cervical cancer
- Brachytherapy
- Cervical cancer
- Cervical cancer screening tests
- Cervical dysplasia
- Colposcopy
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
Endometrial (uterine) cancer
- Brachytherapy
- Endometrial biopsy
- Uterine cancer
Endometriosis
- Endometriosis
- Uterine adenomyosis
Fibroids
- Uterine artery embolization
- Uterine fibroids
Gynecologic surgery
- Deciding to have a hysterectomy
- Dilation and curettage (D&C)
- Endometrial ablation
- Hysterectomy
- Hysterectomy – Discharge instructions
- Hysteroscopy
- Myomectomy
- Myomectomy – Discharge instructions
- Oophorectomy
- Oophorectomy – Discharge instructions
- Salpingectomy
- Salpingectomy – Discharge instructions
- Tubal ligation
- Tubal ligation – Discharge instructions
- Uterine artery embolization
- What you should know about oophorectomy
Infertility
- Female infertility
- In vitro fertilization
- Infertility in couples
- Male infertility
Menopause
- Bleeding after menopause
- Calcium and vitamin D for bone health
- Hormone therapy for menopause
- Menopause
- Perimenopause
- Primary ovarian insufficiency
- Vaginal dryness
Menstrual cycle
- Absent or irregular periods
- Bleeding between periods
- Endometrial ablation
- Heavy periods
- Menstruation
- Painful periods
- Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
Ovarian cancer
- Genetic testing for breast, ovarian, prostate, and pancreatic cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Ovarian cancer screening
- Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor
Ovarian cysts
Pelvic floor
- Pelvic floor muscle exercises
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Surgery for pelvic organ prolapse
- Surgery for pelvic organ prolapse – Discharge instructions
- Surgery for stress urinary incontinence in females
- Surgery for stress urinary incontinence in females – Discharge instructions
Pelvic pain
- Bladder pain syndrome (interstitial cystitis)
- Chronic pelvic pain in females
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
Pregnancy termination (abortion)
- Deciding to have an abortion
- Medication abortion
- Procedural abortion
Problems with sex
- Balanitis in adults
- Dyspareunia (painful sex)
- Priapism
- Sex problems in females
- Sex problems in males
- Vaginal dryness
- Vaginismus
Prostate cancer
- Bone metastases
- Brachytherapy
- Choosing treatment for low-risk localized prostate cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Prostate cancer screening (PSA tests)
Prostate disease
- Bacterial prostatitis
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate)
- Chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome
- Prostate biopsy
- Prostatectomy
- Prostatectomy – Discharge instructions
- Surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia – Discharge instructions
- Urinary incontinence in males
Routine care
Scrotum and testicles
- Epididymitis and orchitis
- Hydrocele
- Varicocele
Sexual violence
- Care after sexual assault
- Intimate partner violence
Sexually transmitted infections
- Anogenital warts
- Care after sexual assault
- Cervical dysplasia
- Chlamydia and gonorrhea
- Chlamydia – Discharge instructions
- Colposcopy
- Congenital syphilis
- Genital herpes
- Gonorrhea – Discharge instructions
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
- Mycoplasma genitalium
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Syphilis
- Syphilis blood test
- Trichomoniasis
- Urethritis
Testicular cancer
Transgender health care
Vaginal cancer
Vaginal infections and vaginal discharge
- Bacterial vaginosis
- Vaginal discharge
- Vaginitis in adults
- Vulvovaginal yeast infection
Vulvar itching or pain
- Bartholin gland cyst
- Lichen sclerosus
- Vulvar itching
- Vulvar pain
Skin, hair, and nails
Acne and rosacea
Benign skin growths
- Corns and calluses
- Lipoma
- Moles
- Seborrheic keratosis
- Skin lesion removal
- Skin tags (acrochordon)
Blisters
- Blisters
- Bullous pemphigoid
Body art
- Tattoos and body piercings
Dermatitis
- Contact dermatitis
- Eczema (atopic dermatitis)
- Intertrigo
- Itchy skin
- Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac
- Seborrheic dermatitis
- Topical corticosteroid medicines
Discoid lupus
Erythema multiforme
Erythema nodosum
Granuloma annulare
Hair loss
Heat rash
Hidradenitis suppurativa
Hives and angioedema
- Angioedema
- Angioedema caused by ACE inhibitor medicines
- Chronic hives
- Hives
- Inducible hives
Insects and parasites
- Allergy to insect stings
- Bedbugs
- Insect bites and stings
- Lice
- Pinworms
- Scabies
- Spider bites
Mouth sores
Nails
- Fungal nail infections
- Ingrown toenail
- Lichen planus
- Paronychia
Papulosquamous disorders
- Lichen planus
- Pityriasis rosea
- Psoriasis
- Psoriatic arthritis in adults
- Psoriatic arthritis in children
- Topical corticosteroid medicines
Pigmentation disorders
Pressure sores
Pyoderma gangrenosum
Scars and healing
- Caring for an open wound
- Keloids
Scleroderma
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
Skin burns
- Chemical skin burn
- Debridement of a wound or burn
- Debridement of a wound or burn – Discharge instructions
- Skin burns
Skin cancer
- Actinic keratosis
- Bone metastases
- Brain metastases
- Melanoma skin cancer
- Non-melanoma skin cancer
- Skin biopsy
- Skin biopsy – Discharge instructions
- Skin lesion removal
Skin infections
- Bacterial folliculitis
- Bacterial wound culture
- Boil
- Cellulitis (skin infection) in adults – Discharge instructions
- Cellulitis (skin infection) in children – Discharge instructions
- Cellulitis and erysipelas (skin infections)
- Cellulitis around the eye – Discharge instructions
- Cold sores (oral herpes)
- Gangrene
- Herpetic whitlow
- Impetigo
- Itchy skin
- Laceration infection
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Paronychia
- Pilonidal cyst
- Ringworm, athlete's foot, and jock itch
- Skin abscess
- Skin abscess drainage
- Skin abscess drainage – Discharge instructions
- Tinea nigra
- Tinea versicolor
Skin warts
Sunburn
Wounds
- Laceration infection
- Negative pressure wound therapy
- Removing objects stuck in the skin
Sleep
Daytime sleepiness
- Daytime sleepiness
- Sleep insufficiency
Insomnia
- Insomnia
- Obstructive sleep apnea in adults
Jet lag
Narcolepsy
Restless legs syndrome
Sleep apnea
- How to use a PAP device
- Insomnia
- Obstructive sleep apnea in adults
- Obstructive sleep apnea in children
Sleep disorders
- Good sleep hygiene
- Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder
Sleep insufficiency
Sleep problems in children
- Bedwetting in children
- Good sleep hygiene
- How to put your baby down to sleep
- Night terrors, confusional arousals, and nightmares in children
- Obstructive sleep apnea in children
- Sleepwalking in children
Tests
Tonsils and adenoids
- Peritonsillar abscess
- Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in children – Discharge instructions
- Tonsillectomy in adults
- Tonsillectomy in adults – Discharge instructions
Surgery
After surgery
- Caring for a closed surgical wound
- Caring for an open wound
- Clear liquid diet
- Continuous infusion pain pump
- Deep breathing and coughing after surgery
- Diet after weight loss surgery
- Exploratory abdominal surgery – Discharge instructions
- How to care for a closed suction drain
- How to change a dressing
- How to protect the chest after heart surgery
- How to use crutches
- Intermittent pneumatic compression devices
- Malnutrition
- Malnutrition – Discharge instructions
- Managing acute pain at home
- Nausea and vomiting after surgery
- Negative pressure wound therapy
- Patient-controlled analgesia
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) – Discharge instructions
- Removing staples
- Removing stitches
- Seroma
- Surgical site infection
Anesthesia for surgery
- Anesthesia for cesarean birth
- Anesthesia for elective eye surgery
- Anesthesia in adults
- Anesthesia in children
- Continuous infusion pain pump
- Dental anesthesia
- Epidural injection
- Fasting before surgery
- General anesthesia in adults – Discharge instructions
- General anesthesia in children – Discharge instructions
- Monitored anesthesia care
- Monitored anesthesia care – Discharge instructions
- Nausea and vomiting after surgery
- Nerve blocks
- Patient-controlled analgesia
- Questions to ask if you are having surgery or a procedure
- Sedation for procedures in adults
- Sedation for procedures in adults – Discharge instructions
- Sedation for procedures in children – Discharge instructions
Bone and joint surgery
- Amputation
- Amputation of the foot or toe
- Amputation of the foot or toe – Discharge instructions
- Amputation – Discharge instructions
- Amputation, below-the-knee
- Amputation, below-the-knee – Discharge instructions
- Anterior cervical spinal fusion
- Anterior cervical spinal fusion – Discharge instructions
- Arthrocentesis
- Arthroscopy
- Arthroscopy – Discharge instructions
- Hip replacement
- Hip replacement – Discharge instructions
- Knee arthroscopy
- Knee arthroscopy – Discharge instructions
- Knee replacement
- Knee replacement – Discharge instructions
- Laminectomy
- Laminectomy – Discharge instructions
- Pin, plate, or screw removal
- Posterior cervical spinal fusion
- Posterior cervical spinal fusion – Discharge instructions
- Rotator cuff repair
- Rotator cuff repair – Discharge instructions
- Shoulder arthroscopy
- Shoulder arthroscopy – Discharge instructions
- Shoulder replacement
- Surgery to fix a broken bone
- Surgery to fix a broken bone – Discharge instructions
- Thoracic or lumbar spinal fusion
- Thoracic or lumbar spinal fusion – Discharge instructions
- Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty
Breast surgery
- Deciding about breast reconstruction after mastectomy
- Mastectomy
- Mastectomy – Discharge instructions
- Seroma
Colon/rectal surgery
- Colectomy
- Colostomy or ileostomy reversal
- Colostomy or ileostomy reversal – Discharge instructions
- Living with a colostomy
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery – Discharge instructions
Eye surgery
- Anesthesia for elective eye surgery
- Capsulotomy after cataract surgery
Gallbladder removal
- Cholecystectomy
- Cholecystectomy – Discharge instructions
- Choosing surgery to treat gallstones
General surgery
- Anesthesia in adults
- Appendectomy
- Appendectomy – Discharge instructions
- Arteriovenous vascular access for hemodialysis
- Colostomy or ileostomy surgery
- Endovascular surgery
- Exploratory abdominal surgery
- Exploratory abdominal surgery – Discharge instructions
- Fundoplication
- Fundoplication – Discharge instructions
- Managing pain after surgery
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Minimally invasive thoracic surgery
- Nausea and vomiting after surgery
- Prostatectomy
- Prostatectomy – Discharge instructions
- Questions to ask if you are having surgery or a procedure
- Robot-assisted surgery
- Splenectomy – Discharge instructions
- Surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Surgical gastrostomy
- Thyroidectomy
- Thyroidectomy – Discharge instructions
- Tonsillectomy in adults
- Tonsillectomy in adults – Discharge instructions
- Ureteral stent placement
- Ureteral stent removal
- Using an abdominal binder
- Whipple procedure
Gynecologic surgery
- Deciding to have a hysterectomy
- Dilation and curettage (D&C)
- Endometrial ablation
- Hysterectomy
- Hysterectomy – Discharge instructions
- Hysteroscopy
- Myomectomy
- Myomectomy – Discharge instructions
- Oophorectomy
- Oophorectomy – Discharge instructions
- Salpingectomy
- Salpingectomy – Discharge instructions
- Tubal ligation
- Tubal ligation – Discharge instructions
- Uterine artery embolization
- What you should know about oophorectomy
Hernia
- Abdominal wall hernia repair
- Abdominal wall hernia repair – Discharge instructions
- Abdominal wall hernias
- Groin hernia repair
- Groin hernia repair – Discharge instructions
- Groin hernias
- Hiatal hernia
- Seroma
Preparing for surgery
- Fasting before surgery
- Lowering the risk of a surgical site infection
- Questions to ask if you are having surgery or a procedure
Reconstructive surgery
- Breast reconstruction
- Breast reconstruction – Discharge instructions
- Deciding about breast reconstruction after mastectomy
- Flap surgery
- Reconstruction after surgery for head and neck cancer
Splenectomy
- Preventing infection after splenectomy
- Splenectomy
Weight loss surgery
- Dumping syndrome
- Gastric bypass
- Gastric bypass – Discharge instructions
- Gastric sleeve
- Gastric sleeve – Discharge instructions
- Weight loss surgery
Understanding medicines
Cost of medicines
- Brand versus generic medicines
- Coping with high drug prices
How to take medicines
- How to give a subcutaneous injection
- How to give an anticoagulant shot
- How to give an insulin shot
- How to give an intramuscular injection
- How to give epinephrine
- How to use a nebulizer
- How to use a pen injector
- How to use a skin patch
- How to use an autoinjector
- How to use an insulin pen
- How to use ear drops
- How to use eye medicines
- How to use nasal medicines
- How to use rectal medicines
- How to use topical medicines
- How to use vaginal medicines
- How to use your child's dry powder inhaler
- How to use your child's metered dose inhaler
- How to use your dry powder inhaler (adults)
- How to use your metered dose inhaler (adults)
- How to use your soft mist inhaler (adults)
- Infusion pumps
- Why taking your medicine as prescribed is important
Medication safety
- Giving your child medicines
- Hazardous medicine safety at home
- How to dispose of needles and other sharps
- Medication safety
- Prescription drug misuse
- Taking medicines when you're older
- Taking opioids safely
- Why taking your medicine as prescribed is important
Medicines for specific health problems
- Anticoagulant medicines – Uses and kinds
- Clot-dissolving medicines for heart attack or stroke
- Commonly used medicines for depression
- Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs)
- How to take anticoagulants safely
- Inhaled corticosteroid medicines
- Managing acute pain at home
- Medicines after a heart attack
- Medicines after an ischemic stroke
- Medicines and breastfeeding
- Medicines for ADHD in children
- Medicines for COPD
- Medicines for Parkinson disease
- Medicines for angina
- Medicines for asthma
- Medicines for atrial fibrillation
- Medicines for chronic kidney disease
- Medicines for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Medicines for high blood pressure
- Medicines for osteoporosis
- Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Oral steroid medicines
- Starting treatment for HIV
- Taking medicines during pregnancy
- Taking medicines to prevent HIV before exposure
- Taking opioids safely
- Topical corticosteroid medicines
- Tricyclic antidepressants
- Using insulin
- Warfarin and your diet
- What you should know about antibiotics
Side effects of medicines
- Angioedema caused by ACE inhibitor medicines
- Drug allergy
- Managing constipation from your medicines
- Managing diarrhea from your medicines
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Penicillin allergy
- Serotonin syndrome
- Side effects from medicines
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Sulfonamide allergy
Understanding your child’s medicines
- Acetaminophen dosing in children
- Giving your child insulin
- Giving your child medicines
- Ibuprofen dosing in children
- Medicines for ADHD in children