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HATop of page
  1. Hair Analysis
  2. Hair Loss
  3. Hair Transplant Surgery
  4. Hammer, Claw, and Mallet Toes
  5. Hand hygiene: A guide to clean hands
  6. Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease
  7. Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome (HCPS)
  8. Having a Hip Replacement: Activities and sports
  9. Having a Hip Replacement: After your surgery
  10. Having a Hip Replacement: Before your surgery
  11. Having a Hip Replacement: Chores
  12. Having a Hip Replacement: Day of surgery
  13. Having a Hip Replacement: Equipment you’ll need
  14. Having a Hip Replacement: Exercise, sports, and other activities
  15. Having a Hip Replacement: Exercises before surgery – Phase 1 exercises
  16. Having a Hip Replacement: Exercises to help you recover – Phase 2 exercises
  17. Having a Hip Replacement: Getting around
  18. Having a Hip Replacement: Going home
  19. Having a Hip Replacement: Having a hip replacement
  20. Having a Hip Replacement: Hip replacement surgery
  21. Having a Hip Replacement: Moving around and caring for yourself
  22. Having a Hip Replacement: Personal care
  23. Having a Hip Replacement: Resources
  24. Having a Hip Replacement: Safe sex positions
  25. Having a Hip Replacement: When to get medical help
  26. Having a Knee Replacement: Activities and sports
  27. Having a Knee Replacement: After your surgery
  28. Having a Knee Replacement: Before your surgery
  29. Having a Knee Replacement: Chores
  30. Having a Knee Replacement: Day of surgery
  31. Having a Knee Replacement: Equipment you'll need
  32. Having a Knee Replacement: Exercise, sports and other activities
  33. Having a Knee Replacement: Exercises before surgery - Phase 1 exercises
  34. Having a Knee Replacement: Exercises to help you recover - Phase 2 exercises
  35. Having a Knee Replacement: Getting around
  36. Having a Knee Replacement: Going home
  37. Having a Knee Replacement: Having a knee replacement
  38. Having a Knee Replacement: Knee replacement surgery
  39. Having a Knee Replacement: Moving around and caring for yourself
  40. Having a Knee Replacement: Personal care
  41. Having a Knee Replacement: Resources
  42. Having a Knee Replacement: Safe sex positions
  43. Having a Knee Replacement: When to get medical help
  44. Hay Fever and Other Seasonal Allergies
HETop of page
  1. Head injury in children: HEAL
  2. Head Injury, Age 3 and Younger
  3. Head Injury, Age 4 and Older
  4. Head Lice
  5. Head Lice: How to treat head lice
  6. Headaches
  7. Headaches
  8. Headaches in Children
  9. Headaches in Children: Headache treatments for children
  10. Headaches in Children: Medicines for migraines in children
  11. Headaches in Children: Types and causes of headaches in children
  12. Headaches: Finding and Avoiding Triggers
  13. Headaches: Managing a Headache
  14. Headaches: Should I Take Medicine to Prevent Migraines?
  15. Healing Touch
  16. Health and Safety, Ages 2 to 5 Years
  17. Health and Safety, Birth to 2 Years
  18. Health Screening: Finding Health Problems Early
  19. Health Screenings: Should I Buy Commercial Tests?
  20. Health Tracking Forms and Checklists
  21. Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia (Nosocomial Pneumonia)
  22. Healthwise Self-Care Checklist
  23. Healthy Aging
  24. Healthy Aging and Driving: Driving safety for older adults
  25. Healthy Aging: Is It Time to Stop Driving?
  26. Healthy Bladder and Bowel: Bladder and bowel diary
  27. Healthy Eating
  28. Healthy Eating
  29. Healthy Eating for Children
  30. Healthy Eating: 3-Day food and activity journal
  31. Healthy Eating: Changing Your Eating Habits
  32. Healthy Eating: Cutting Unhealthy Fats From Your Diet
  33. Healthy Eating: Eating Heart-Healthy Foods
  34. Healthy Eating: Eating Less Sodium
  35. Healthy Eating: Getting Support When Changing Your Eating Habits
  36. Healthy Eating: Helping Your Child Learn Healthy Eating Habits
  37. Healthy Eating: How can I fit more vegetables and fruit into a healthy meal?
  38. Healthy Eating: Making Healthy Choices When You Eat Out
  39. Healthy Eating: Making Healthy Choices When You Shop
  40. Healthy Eating: Overcoming Barriers to Change
  41. Healthy Eating: Recognizing Your Hunger Signals
  42. Healthy Eating: Setting goals for lifestyle change
  43. Healthy Eating: Starting a Plan for Change
  44. Healthy Eating: Staying With Your Plan
  45. Healthy Eating: Taking Calcium and Vitamin D
  46. Healthy Habits for Kids
  47. Hearing Aids
  48. Hearing aids: How to care for your child’s hearing aid and earmold
  49. Hearing Loss
  50. Hearing loss in children with Down syndrome: What you need to know
  51. Hearing Loss: Should I Get Hearing Aids?
  52. Hearing screening for adults of all ages: Using the hearWHO app
  53. Hearing technology for children: What you need to know
  54. Hearing technology: Learning about
  55. Hearing Tests
  56. Hearing Tests: Learning about your child’s tests
  57. Hearing tests: What happens at a hearing test appointment
  58. Hearing: Childhood ear infections
  59. Hearing: Communicating if you have hearing loss
  60. Hearing: Communicating with people who have trouble hearing
  61. Hearing: Guide to buying hearing aids for adults
  62. Hearing: Helping children with hearing loss to listen and learn
  63. Hearing: How do I know if my child can hear me?
  64. Hearing: Tips for when it's hard to communicate
  65. Heart and Circulation
  66. Heart Arrhythmias and Exercise
  67. Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
  68. Heart Block
  69. Heart Disease Risk Calculator
  70. Heart disease: Statin medicines: Clearing up myths
  71. Heart Failure
  72. Heart Failure Daily Action Plan
  73. Heart Failure: Activity and Exercise
  74. Heart Failure: Avoiding Medicines That Make Symptoms Worse
  75. Heart Failure: Avoiding Triggers for Sudden Heart Failure
  76. Heart failure: Heart failure medicines
  77. Heart Failure: Managing heart failure: Heart failure action plan
  78. Heart Failure: Should I Get a Pacemaker (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)?
  79. Heart Failure: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)?
  80. Heart Failure: Taking Medicines Properly
  81. Heart Failure: Watching Your Fluids
  82. Heart failure: Weight chart
  83. Heart Health: Walking for a Healthy Heart
  84. Heart Murmur
  85. Heart Rate Problems: Should I Get a Pacemaker?
  86. Heart Rhythm Problems: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)?
  87. Heart Surgery: About Your Heart
  88. Heart Surgery: Activity After Surgery
  89. Heart Surgery: After Surgery
  90. Heart Surgery: Care After Surgery
  91. Heart Surgery: Day of Surgery
  92. Heart Surgery: Exercises
  93. Heart Surgery: Getting Ready for Surgery
  94. Heart Surgery: Getting Ready to Go Home
  95. Heart Surgery: Getting Ready to Go Home
  96. Heart Surgery: Heart Surgery Overview
  97. Heart Surgery: Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation
  98. Heart Surgery: Overview
  99. Heart Surgery: Recovering at Home
  100. Heart Surgery: Resources
  101. Heart Surgery: The Night Before Surgery
  102. Heart Surgery: The Surgery
  103. Heart Surgery: Waiting for Surgery
  104. Heart Surgery: When to Call you Family Doctor
  105. Heart Surgery: When to Call Your Doctor after You Go Home
  106. Heart Tests: When Do You Need Them?
  107. Heart Transplant
  108. Heart Valve Disease
  109. Heartburn
  110. Heat-Related Illnesses
  111. Heavy Menstrual Periods
  112. Heavy Sweating
  113. Helicobacter Pylori Tests
  114. HELLP Syndrome
  115. Helpful Resources: Final Days - Overview
  116. Helpful Resources: Final Days - Resources
  117. Helpful Resources: Final Days - Trying to Understand
  118. Helpful Resources: Final Days – What to Expect
  119. Helpful Resources: Final Days - When Death Happens
  120. Helpful Resources: Grief and Bereavement
  121. Helpful Resources: Stories
  122. Helpful Resources: Symptom Management
  123. Helpful Resources: Symptom Management - Bowel & Bladder
  124. Helpful Resources: Symptom Management - Confusion
  125. Helpful Resources: Symptom Management - Loss of Strength
  126. Helpful Resources: Symptom Management - Nausea & Vomiting
  127. Helpful Resources: Symptom Management - Pain
  128. Helpful Resources: Symptom Management - Shortness of Breath
  129. Helpful Resources: Useful Links
  130. Helpful Resources: Videos
  131. Helping children and teens recover after a disaster or emergency: Care instructions
  132. Helping Children With Disabilities Stay Active
  133. Helping older adults recover after a disaster or emergency: Care instructions
  134. Helping Your Child Build Inner Strength
  135. Helping Your Child Who Is Overweight
  136. Hemochromatosis
  137. Hemochromatosis Gene (HFE) Test
  138. Hemochromatosis Genetic Screening
  139. Hemodialysis
  140. Hemodialysis: Angiogram/ Fistulogram and Angioplasty of Your AV Fistula or Graft
  141. Hemodialysis: Caring for Your Buttonhole Site
  142. Hemodialysis: Caring for your new central venous catheter (CVC) for dialysis
  143. Hemodialysis: What a shorter dialysis time can mean for you
  144. Hemoglobin Electrophoresis Test
  145. Hemophilia
  146. Hemorrhoidectomy
  147. Hemorrhoids
  148. Hemorrhoids: Which Treatment Should I Use?
  149. Hepatitis A
  150. Hepatitis A Virus Test
  151. Hepatitis B
  152. Hepatitis B Virus Tests
  153. Hepatitis B: How to Avoid Spreading the Virus
  154. Hepatitis B: Should I Be Tested?
  155. Hepatitis B: Should I Take Antiviral Medicine for Chronic Hepatitis B?
  156. Hepatitis C
  157. Hepatitis C in Pregnancy
  158. Hepatitis C Viral Load Test
  159. Hepatitis C Virus Tests
  160. Hepatitis E
  161. Hepatitis Panel
  162. Herpes Tests
HITop of page
  1. Hiatal Hernia
  2. Hiccups
  3. HIDA Scan
  4. Hidradenitis Suppurativa
  5. High Blood Pressure
  6. High Blood Pressure
  7. High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy
  8. High Blood Pressure in Children and Teens
  9. High Blood Pressure: Checking Your Blood Pressure at Home
  10. High Blood Pressure: Should I Take Medicine?
  11. High Blood Pressure: Taking Medicines Properly
  12. High Blood Pressure: Using the DASH Diet
  13. High Cholesterol
  14. High Cholesterol: Making Lifestyle Changes
  15. High Triglycerides
  16. High-Risk Pregnancy
  17. High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hs-CRP) Test
  18. Hip Fracture
  19. Hip Injuries, Age 11 and Younger
  20. Hip Injuries, Age 12 and Older
  21. Hip Problems, Age 11 and Younger
  22. Hip Problems, Age 12 and Older
  23. Hip Replacement Surgery: What to expect at home
  24. Hirschsprung Disease
  25. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) Infection
  26. HIV Testing: Should I Get Tested for Human Immunodeficiency Virus?
  27. HIV Viral Load Test
  28. HIV: HIV self-test: What you need to know
  29. HIV: Taking Antiretroviral Medicines
HOTop of page
  1. Hoarding Disorder
  2. Hodgkin Lymphoma
  3. Home Blood Pressure Test
  4. Home Blood Sugar Test
  5. Home Lung Function Test
  6. Home oxygen: Learning about making an emergency medical plan
  7. Home Pregnancy Tests
  8. Home ventilator and BPAP: Learning about making an emergency medical plan
  9. Homeopathy
  10. Homocysteine
  11. Homocystinuria
  12. Hope and Healing after Suicide: After a suicide: Everyone grieves in their own way
  13. Hope and Healing after Suicide: Healing after a suicide death
  14. Hope and Healing After Suicide: Helping children cope with a suicide death
  15. Hope and healing after suicide: Overview
  16. Hope and Healing after Suicide: References
  17. Hormone Inhibin A Test
  18. Hormones
  19. Hospital Discharge Planning
  20. Housing: Renting in Alberta
  21. How to Start Being Active: Aerobic Training
  22. How to Start Being Active: All about Exercise Words
  23. How to Start Being Active: Getting Ready for Positive Changes
  24. How to Start Being Active: Good Reasons to be More Active
  25. How to Start Being Active: How Active Do I Need to Be?
  26. How to Start Being Active: Physical Activity and Exercise
  27. How to Start Being Active: Strengthening Your Core
  28. How to Start Being Active: The importance of being physically active outdoors
  29. How to Start Being Active: Understanding flexibility: An Important part of fitness
HPTop of page
  1. HPV: Should I Get the Vaccine?
  2. HPV: Should My Child Get the Vaccine?
HUTop of page
  1. Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) Test
  2. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Test
  3. Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test of the Cervix
  4. Humour Therapy
  5. Huntington Disease Genetic Test
HYTop of page
  1. Hydrocele
  2. Hydrotherapy
  3. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
  4. Hyperkalemia
  5. Hyperparathyroidism
  6. Hypertensive Emergency
  7. Hyperthyroidism
  8. Hyperthyroidism: Graves' Ophthalmopathy
  9. Hyperthyroidism: Should I Use Antithyroid Medicine or Radioactive Iodine?
  10. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  11. Hyperventilation
  12. Hypnosis
  13. Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar) in People Without Diabetes
  14. Hypoglycemic Unawareness: Taking Steps to Stay Safe
  15. Hypokalemia
  16. Hyponatremia
  17. Hypospadias
  18. Hypothermia and Cold Temperature Exposure
  19. Hypothyroidism
  20. Hysterectomy
  21. Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy: Should I Use Estrogen Therapy (ET)?
  22. Hysterectomy for Endometrial Cancer
  23. Hysterectomy for Ovarian Cancer
  24. Hysterectomy: Should I Also Have My Ovaries Removed?
  25. Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
  26. Hysteroscopy
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