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Alcohol, Tobacco and Drug Use
Alcohol: How to Deal with a Slip-Up
Alcohol: Taking Action
Alcohol: Time for a Change?
Alcohol: Treatment Options
Beat Your Smoking Triggers
COPD: Take This Chance to Quit Smoking
COPD: Time to Decide About Smoking
COPD: Try a New Quit-Smoking Strategy
Drug Addiction: Treatment Options
Drug Withdrawal: What to Expect
How Secondhand Smoke Affects Your Child
Nicotine and the Brain
Parent or Smoker: How Does Your Child See You?
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Could You Have a Problem?
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Getting Back on Track
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Setting Goals for Quitting
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Support for Recovery
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Treatment Options
Quit Smoking: How Medicines Can Help
Quit Smoking: How to Tell Your Friends
Quit Smoking: Keep Your Social Life
Quitting Smoking: Dealing With a Slip-Up
Quitting Smoking: Have Your Own Reason
Quitting Smoking: It May Take Many Tries
Quitting Smoking: Medicines Increase Success Rates
Quitting Smoking: Medicines to Help With Cravings
Quitting Smoking: The Rewards Start Now
See Yourself as a Nonsmoker
Smoker's Cough: What Do You Tell Yourself?
Allergies and Immune System
How to Give an Epinephrine Shot to a Child
How to Give Yourself an Epinephrine Shot
Managing Seasonal Allergies
Poison Ivy, Oak, or Sumac: What to Do First
Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Acupuncture and Massage for Back Pain
Chronic Low Back Pain: Time for Something New
Chronic Pain: Treatments Other Than Medicine
Mindfulness: Breathing Exercise
Mindfulness: Breathing Practice
Relaxation Exercise: Deep Breathing
Relaxation Exercise: Guided Imagery
Stress Management: Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Stress Management: Relaxing Your Muscles
Stress Management: Roll Breathing
Stress Management: Using Yoga to Relax
Baby Health
6 Survival Tips for New Parents
After the NICU: Caring for Your Baby at Home
Alberta’s Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Program
Bathing Your Baby
Breast-Feeding: Getting My Baby to Latch
Car Seat Safety
Caring for Your Newborn: Feeding
Caring for Your Newborn: Sleeping
Caring for Your Newborn: Umbilical Cord
Caring for Yourself While Your Baby is in the NICU
Dressing Your Baby
Here's Help: Mild Dehydration in Your Baby or Child
How to Calm a Crying Baby
How to Cope When Your Baby Won't Stop Crying
How to Swaddle Safely
Jaundice in Newborns
Kangaroo Care for Your Baby and You
Learning About Circumcision
Learning About the NICU
NICU: Getting Ready to Take Your Baby Home
Premature Baby: Special Care in the NICU
Should My Son Be Circumcised?
Well-Baby Visits to the Doctor
Why Get Your Child Immunized?
Before and After Surgery
ACL Reconstruction Surgery
Appendectomy for Children: Before Surgery
Appendectomy for Children: Returning Home
Appendectomy: Before Your Surgery
Appendectomy: Returning Home
Back Surgery for Herniated Disc
Back Surgery for Spinal Stenosis
Becoming a Living Liver Donor
Before Your Surgery: How to Prepare
Bowel Resection
Bronchoscopy
Bypass Surgery for Heart Disease
Caring for a Drain After Surgery
Caring for Your Child's Drain After Surgery
Cataract Surgery
Cholecystectomy: Before Your Surgery
Cholecystectomy: Returning Home
Colostomy
Coronary Angiogram: Recovering at Home
Deciding About Herniated Disc Surgery
Deciding About Hip Replacement Surgery
Deciding About Knee Replacement Surgery
Deciding About Spinal Stenosis Surgery
Deciding About Weight-Loss Surgery
Diabetes: Preparing for Surgery
Epidural Anesthesia
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 01): An Introduction
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 02): Pre-Admission Visit or Call
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 03): Getting Ready at Home
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 04): Eating & Drinking Before Surgery
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 05): Day of Surgery
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 06): Anesthesia and Pain Control
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 07): The Operating Room
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 08): The Recovery Room
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 09): Your Hospital Room
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 10): Managing Pain and Nausea
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 11): Eating and Moving after Surgery
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 12): Stomas and Ostomies
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 13): Breathe Easy
ERAS – Your Surgery Journey (Video 14): Back Home
Gastric Sleeve Surgery
Gastric Sleeve Surgery: Returning Home
Heart Valve Replacement Surgery
Herniated Disc Surgery: How Others Decided
Hip Fracture Surgery
Hip Repair Surgery: Returning Home
Hip Replacement Surgery
Hip Replacement Surgery: How Others Decided
Hip Replacement Surgery: Returning Home
Hip Replacement: When Can You Be Active Again?
Hysterectomy
Hysterectomy: Returning Home
Introduction to Living Donation
Kidney Transplant: Before Your Surgery
Kidney Transplant: Returning Home
Knee Arthritis: What is Knee Replacement Surgery?
Knee Arthroscopy
Knee Arthroscopy: Recovering at Home
Knee Replacement Surgery
Knee Replacement Surgery: How Others Decided
Knee Replacement Surgery: Pros and Cons
Knee Replacement: Recovery
Knee Replacement: When Can You Be Active Again?
Laparoscopic Gastric Banding
Laparoscopic Gastric Banding: Returning Home
Laparoscopy
Laparoscopy in Children
Lumpectomy
Lymph Node Dissection: Self-Care at Home
Meniscus Surgery
Open-Heart Surgery: Returning Home
Pacemaker Placement: About Your Procedure
Pacemaker Placement: Returning Home
Parathyroidectomy: Before Your Surgery
Parathyroidectomy: Returning Home
Preventing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) After Surgery
Preventing Problems After Surgery
Prostatectomy
Prostatectomy: Returning Home
Receiving the Call for a Transplant
Rotator Cuff Surgery
Rotator Cuff Surgery: Returning Home
Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass
Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Returning Home
Shoulder Replacement Surgery
Shoulder Replacement Surgery: Returning Home
Spinal Stenosis Surgery: How Others Decided
The Islet Transplant Program: Information and Process
The Islet Transplant Program: Procedure and Follow-up Information
Thyroidectomy: Before Surgery
Thyroidectomy: Returning Home
Tracheostomy
Tracheostomy: Returning Home
Weight-Loss Surgery: How Others Decided
Welcome to the Transplant Waitlist
Your Baby's Pyloric Stenosis Repair: Before Surgery
Your Baby's Pyloric Stenosis Repair: Returning Home
Your Child's Cardiac Catheterization for PDA: Before the Procedure
Your Child's Cardiac Catheterization for PDA: Returning Home
Your Child's Hernia Repair: Before Surgery
Your Child's Hernia Repair: Returning Home
Your Child's Skin Graft: Before Surgery
Your Child's Skin Graft: Returning Home
Your Child's Tonsillectomy: Before Surgery
Your Child's Tonsillectomy: Returning Home
Your Child's Wound Debridement: Before Surgery
Your Child's Wound Debridement: Returning Home
Blood
Blood Transfusion
Bone, Joints and Muscles
ACL Reconstruction Surgery
Acupuncture and Massage for Back Pain
Arthritis: Making Everyday Activities Easier
Back Pain Needs Time, Medicine, and Activity
Back Pain: Getting In and Out of Bed
Back Pain: Have a Maintenance Plan
Back Pain: Self-Massage With a Tennis Ball
Back Pain: Strengthening Your Core
Back Surgery for Herniated Disc
Back Surgery for Spinal Stenosis
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Few Tips for Preventing It
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Stretches
Chronic Low Back Pain: Time for Something New
Deciding About Herniated Disc Surgery
Deciding About Hip Replacement Surgery
Deciding About Knee Replacement Surgery
Deciding About Spinal Stenosis Surgery
Ergonomics: Setting Up Your Work Area
Ergonomics: Using Your Computer
Exercising Safely With Arthritis
Heat or Ice for Low Back Pain
Herniated Disc Surgery: How Others Decided
Hip Fracture Surgery
Hip Repair Surgery: Returning Home
Hip Replacement Surgery
Hip Replacement Surgery: How Others Decided
Hip Replacement Surgery: Returning Home
Home Treatment for Herniated Disc Pain
Hot and Cold Therapy for Arthritis
How to Do a Hamstring Stretch While Sitting
How To Do Ankle Pumps
How to Do Calf Stretches While Sitting
How to Do Chair Push-Ups
How To Do Glute Sets
How to Do Heel Raises
How to Do Heel Slides
How to Do Quad Sets
How to Do Short-Arc (Terminal) Knee Extensions While Standing
How to Do Stationary Biking for Knee Rehab
How to Do Step-Up and Step-Down Exercises
How to Do Straight-Leg Raises
How to Do the Hip Abduction Exercise
How to Do the Knee Flexion Stretch While Sitting
How to Do the Long-Arc Quad Exercise
How to Do the Passive Knee Stretch
How to Do the Short-Arc Quad Exercise
How to Do the Single-Leg Balance Exercise
How to Wrap a Sprained Ankle
Knee Arthritis: Nonsurgical Treatments
Knee Arthritis: Treatments
Knee Arthritis: What Can I Expect?
Knee Arthritis: What is Knee Replacement Surgery?
Knee Arthritis: What is Osteoarthritis?
Knee Arthroscopy
Knee Arthroscopy: Recovering at Home
Knee Replacement Surgery
Knee Replacement Surgery: How Others Decided
Knee Replacement Surgery: Pros and Cons
Knee Replacement: Learning About Rehab
Knee Replacement: Recovery
Low Back Pain: Keep Moving
Low Back Pain: Keeping It From Coming Back
Meniscus Surgery
Osteoporosis: After Your Fracture
Proper Lifting to Protect Your Back
Proper Sitting and Lifting for a Healthy Back
RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation
Spinal Stenosis Surgery: How Others Decided
Spinal Stenosis: Home Treatment and Physical Therapy
Tests for Low Back Pain
Brain and Nerves
After a Stroke: Taking a Blood Thinner for A-fib
After a Stroke: Taking an Antiplatelet
After A Stroke: Your Self-Care Plan
Caring for Your Child With A Seizure Disorder
Epilepsy: Tips for Keeping Your Child Safe
Headaches: Avoiding Triggers
Headaches: Keeping a Diary
How to Help Someone During a Seizure
Rebound Headaches
Stroke Prevention: Should You Have a Carotid Artery Procedure?
Stroke: Understanding Your Emotions
Stroke: What Is Stroke Rehab?
Stroke: What's Your Risk?
Taking Medicine to Stop a Migraine
Vertigo: Head Movements That Help
Vertigo: The Epley Maneuver
What Is A Stroke?
What Is A TIA?
Cancer
Advanced Cancer: Finding Hope
Breast Cancer Surgery (1/4) – Drain Care
Breast Cancer Surgery (2/4) – Arm and Shoulder Exercises – Week 1
Breast Cancer Surgery (3/4) – Arm and Shoulder Exercises – Week 2
Breast Cancer Surgery (4/4) – Arm and Shoulder Exercises – Strengthening Exercises
Breast Cancer: Help for Skin Changes From Radiation
Cancer Transitions: Brain Fog
Cancer Transitions: Living Your Best Life with Cancer
Cancer Transitions: Nutrition
Cancer Transitions: Patient Stories
Cancer Transitions: Sleep
Cancer Treatment: Help for Mouth and Throat Problems
Cancer Treatment: Help for When You Feel Sick or Lose Your Appetite
Cancer: Adjusting Over Time
Cancer: Dealing With Stress
Cancer: Finding Peace in Spirituality
Cancer: Finding Your Strength
Cancer: Help for Fatigue
Cancer: How It Affects Your Relationships
Cancer: How to Talk to Your Children
Cancer: Life After Treatment
Cancer: Preparing for Hair Loss From Chemotherapy
Cancer: Understanding Your Feelings
Cancer: When You First Find Out
Cancer: Your Support Network
Childhood Leukemia: Treatment Options
Childhood Leukemia: What is ALL?
Childhood Leukemia: What is AML?
Childhood Leukemia: Working with Your Care Team
Colon Cancer: Tests and Results
Living Well with Cancer-Related Fatigue – Conclusion
Living Well with Cancer-Related Fatigue – Introduction
Living Well with Cancer-Related Fatigue – Module 1: Find Support and Be Patient
Living Well with Cancer-Related Fatigue – Module 2: Pace Yourself
Living Well with Cancer-Related Fatigue – Module 3: Managing Your Stress
Living Well with Cancer-Related Fatigue – Module 4: Be Active
Living Well with Cancer-Related Fatigue – Module 5: Nutrition and Eating Well
Lumpectomy
Lymph Node Dissection: Self-Care at Home
Systemic Treatment Information Series: Elastomeric Ambulatory Infusor (Baxter Infusor™) Instructional Video
Systemic Treatment Information Series: Immunotherapy
Systemic Treatment Information Series: Living Your Best During Systemic Treatment
Systemic Treatment Information Series: Side Effects Management
Systemic Treatment Information Series: Targeted Therapy
Systemic Treatment Information Series: What is Systemic Treatment?
What Is Chemotherapy?
What Is Radiation Therapy?
Caregiver Instructions
Caregiving: Helping Someone Get In and Out of A Car
Caregiving: How To Prepare
Caregiving: How To Turn A Person in Bed
Child Health
4 Tips to Encourage Self-Discipline in Kids
7 Ways to Make Chores Positive for Kids
7 Ways to Use Loving Discipline with Toddlers
Car Seat Safety
Here's Help: How to Apply a Topical Cream for Your Child
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Ear Drops
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Eyedrops or Ointment
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Oral Medicine
Here's Help: How to Insert Your Child's Suppository
Here's Help: How to Use Nasal Spray or Drops for Your Child
Here's Help: Mild Dehydration in Your Baby or Child
Here's Help: Mild Head Injury (Bump, Cut, or Scrape) in Children
Here's Help: Mild Heat Exhaustion in Children
Here's Help: Mild Sunburn in Children
Here's Help: Minor Burn in Children
How Brains are Built: The Core Story of Brain Development
How Secondhand Smoke Affects Your Child
How to Help Your Child Prevent a Fall in the Hospital
How You Can Help Manage Your Child's Pain in the Hospital
Parent or Smoker: How Does Your Child See You?
Preparing Your Child For A Hospital Stay
Should My Son Be Circumcised?
Taking Your Child's Temperature
Your Child's Orchiopexy: Before Surgery
Your Child's Orchiopexy: Returning Home
Diabetes and Endocrine System
Children and Teens: What is Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes and Exercise
Diabetes and Wound Care
Diabetes and Your Heart
Diabetes in Children: Eating Healthy at School
Diabetes: A1c Test
Diabetes: Benefits of Blood Sugar Testing
Diabetes: Counting Carbohydrates
Diabetes: Daily Foot Care
Diabetes: Finger-Stick Test
Diabetes: Food and Your Blood Sugar
Diabetes: How Others Stay Motivated
Diabetes: Insulin's Role
Diabetes: Planning for a Healthy Pregnancy
Diabetes: Planning Your Next Steps
Diabetes: Preparing for Pregnancy
Diabetes: Preparing for Surgery
Diabetes: Stay in Your Target Range
Diabetes: Testing Your Blood Sugar
Diabetes: You Can Slow Kidney Damage
Gestational Diabetes: Activity
Gestational Diabetes: Avoiding Type 2 diabetes
Gestational Diabetes: Medicines
Gestational Diabetes: Reducing Risk
Gestational Diabetes: Testing Blood Sugar
Gestational Diabetes: What Causes It?
Gestational Diabetes: What Is It?
How Others Manage Diabetes
How to Give a Glucagon Shot
How to Give Yourself an Insulin Shot in Your Arm
Insulin: How to Prepare a Mixed Dose
Insulin: How to Prepare a Single Dose
Metformin and You: A Winning Strategy
Prediabetes: Healthy Changes You Can Make
Prediabetes: Which Path Will You Take?
Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes in Children: Five Ways to Help Your Child Eat Healthy Meals
Type 2 Diabetes in Children: What is it?
Digestive System
Bowel Resection
Caring for Your Feeding Tube
Cirrhosis – Ablation for liver cancer
Cirrhosis – Ascites and pleural effusion
Cirrhosis – Embolization for liver cancer
Cirrhosis – Hepatic encephalopathy
Cirrhosis – Living with cirrhosis
Cirrhosis – Radiation therapy for liver cancer
Cirrhosis – Varices
Cirrhosis – What is cirrhosis?
Cirrhosis – What is liver cancer?
Colonoscopy
Colostomy
Constipation: Here's Help
Diarrhea: Here's Help
Ileostomy
Upper GI Endoscopy
Upper GI Endoscopy for Children
Ear, Nose and Throat
Ear Infection in Children
Sinusitis
Sleep Apnea: Having Trouble With CPAP?
Sleep Apnea: Using CPAP
Sleep Apnea: What Is it?
Sore Throat: Here's Help
Strep Test for Children
Tubes for Ear Infections
Using a Rubber Bulb to Clear a Baby's Nose
Vertigo: Head Movements That Help
Vertigo: The Epley Maneuver
What Is a Sleep Study?
Your Child's Cochlear Implant: Before Surgery
Your Child's Cochlear Implant: Returning Home
Eyes and Vision
Cataract Surgery
Here's Help: How to Give Yourself Eyedrops or Eye Ointment
Taking Care of Pinkeye at Home
Vision Problems: Aids to Help You Cope
Vision Problems: Making Your Home Safer
Why Get Screened for Glaucoma?
Female Health
Benefits of a Pap Test
Deciding About a Hysterectomy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Endometrial Ablation
Heart Disease: Women Are at Risk Too
Hormone Therapy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Hysterectomy
Hysterectomy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: How Others Decided
Hysterectomy: Returning Home
Mammogram: What to Expect
Preventing Heart Disease in Women: First Steps
Tubal Ligation
Tubal Ligation: Returning Home
Vaginal Yeast Infection: Here's Help
What Is Endometriosis?
Fitness and Exercise
Being Active With Heart Disease
BMI, Waist Size, and Your Health
COPD: Exercises for Building Strength
COPD: Exercises for Easier Breathing
Ergonomics: Exercises to Do While Sitting
Exercising Safely With Arthritis
Fitness: How Active Should You Be?
Fitness: Increasing Your Core Stability
Getting Started With Flexibility and Stretching
Healthy Weight: Make Your Plan
Heart Disease: Commit to Making an Exercise Plan
Heart Disease: Every Step Matters
Heart Failure: Being Active
Heart Failure: Your Reason to Be Active
How to Do Curl-Ups
How to Do the Bird Dog Exercise
How to Do the Bridging Exercise
How to Do the Hamstring Stretch in a Doorway
How to Do the Hip Flexor Stretch
How to Do the Pelvic Tilt Exercise
How to Do the Press-Up Exercise
How to Do the Single Knee-to-Chest Exercise
How to Do the Wall Sit Exercise
Lifestyle Changes to Lower Blood Pressure
Measuring Your Exercise Intensity
Older Adults: Be Inspired to Get Active
Older Adults: Getting Active After a Health Scare
Older Adults: Making Physical Activity a Routine
Older Adults: Overcoming Barriers to Fitness
Pelvic Exercises for Urinary Incontinence
Personal Stories About Getting Active
Positive Thinking for Weight Control
Prediabetes: Healthy Changes You Can Make
Pregnancy: How to Exercise Safely
Preventing Falls in Older Adults
Proper Lifting to Protect Your Back
Proper Sitting and Lifting for a Healthy Back
Relaxation Exercise: Deep Breathing
Relaxation Exercise: Guided Imagery
Stress Management: Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Stress Management: Relaxing Your Muscles
Stress Management: Roll Breathing
Stress Management: Using Yoga to Relax
Teens: Get Moving!
Weight and Your Mind
Healthy Living
5 Tips to Keep Your Healthy Lifestyle Change Going
After a Hospital Stay: Managing Appointments
Beat Your Smoking Triggers
BMI, Waist Size, and Your Health
Building Resilience
Changing Negative Thoughts
Creating A Personal Health Record
Fitness: How Active Should You Be?
Fitness: Increasing Your Core Stability
Five Ingredients for Healthy Eating
Five Tips for Healthy Eating
Getting Help When You Leave The Hospital
Getting Started With Flexibility and Stretching
Healthy Eating Pays Off
Healthy Eating: Getting Back on Track
Healthy Eating: How to Build Your Plate
Healthy Eating: Resisting Temptation in Social Situations
Healthy Eating: What Will Make It Work for You?
Healthy Weight: Find Your Inspiration
Healthy Weight: Make Your Plan
Healthy Weight: What Works
Healthy Weight: When Success Slows Down
Heart Health: Finding Support for Healthy Changes
Heart Health: Where Will You Be in 5 Years?
Hospital Isolation Rooms
How Secondhand Smoke Affects Your Child
How to Do Curl-Ups
How to Do the Bird Dog Exercise
How to Do the Bridging Exercise
How to Do the Hamstring Stretch in a Doorway
How to Do the Hip Flexor Stretch
How to Do the Pelvic Tilt Exercise
How to Do the Press-Up Exercise
How to Do the Single Knee-to-Chest Exercise
How to Do the Wall Sit Exercise
How to Stop Negative Thoughts
How Your Body Reacts to Stress
In the Hospital: How To Get the Best Care
In the Hospital: Three Tips for a Healthier Hospital Stay
Lack of Sleep
Lifestyle Changes for High Cholesterol
Lifestyle Changes to Lower Blood Pressure
Make the Most of Your Doctor Visit
Making Meals With Less Sodium
Measuring Your Exercise Intensity
Mindfulness: Breathing Exercise
Mindfulness: Breathing Practice
Nicotine and the Brain
Older Adults: Be Inspired to Get Active
Older Adults: Getting Active After a Health Scare
Older Adults: Making Physical Activity a Routine
Older Adults: Overcoming Barriers to Fitness
Parent or Smoker: How Does Your Child See You?
Personal Stories About Getting Active
Positive Thinking
Positive Thinking for Weight Control
Positive Thinking: Susan's Story
Preventing Falls in the Hospital
Preventing Heart Disease
Protecting Your Skin From The Sun
Quit Smoking: How Medicines Can Help
Quit Smoking: How to Tell Your Friends
Quit Smoking: Keep Your Social Life
Quitting Smoking: Dealing With a Slip-Up
Quitting Smoking: Have Your Own Reason
Quitting Smoking: It May Take Many Tries
Quitting Smoking: Medicines Increase Success Rates
Quitting Smoking: Medicines to Help With Cravings
Quitting Smoking: The Rewards Start Now
Relaxation Exercise: Deep Breathing
Relaxation Exercise: Guided Imagery
See Yourself as a Nonsmoker
Skin Cancer Prevention: Checking Your Skin
Sleep and Your Health
Sleep Importance
Sleep Problems: Getting Past Barriers to Powering Down
Sleep Problems: Make a Plan to Power Down
Sleeping Better
Smoker's Cough: What Do You Tell Yourself?
Stress Management: Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Stress Management: Relaxing Your Muscles
Stress Management: Roll Breathing
Stress Management: Using Yoga to Relax
Stroke Recovery: Finding What Inspires You
Stroke Recovery: Using Support to Stay Positive
Teens: Overweight? You're in Charge
Weight and Your Mind
Your Hospital Stay: Going Home
Your Hospital Stay: Moving to Another Care Facility
Heart and Blood Vessels
Angioplasty for Heart Disease
Angioplasty for Peripheral Arterial Disease
Arrhythmia: Living With a Pacemaker
Arrhythmia: What Is an ICD?
Atrial Fibrillation: Feeling More in Control
Atrial Fibrillation: Living Well
Atrial Fibrillation: Managing Your Symptoms
Avoiding Triggers for Sudden Heart Failure
Being Active With Heart Disease
Beta-Blockers After a Heart Attack
Bypass Surgery for Heart Disease
Cardiac Rehab: How It Can Help
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillators or Biventricular Defibrillators (CRT-D)
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Pacemakers or Biventricular Pacemakers (CRT-P)
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Generator Change
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD)
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Loop Recorder
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Pacemakers
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Pre AV Node Ablation
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
Caring for Your IV Site
Carotid Artery Procedure: How Others Decided
Carotid Artery Stenting
Carotid Endarterectomy
Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Catheter Ablation for SVT
Catheter Ablation: Returning Home
Cholesterol Numbers: What They Mean for Your Health
Coronary Angiogram: How Others Decided
Coronary Angiogram: Recovering at Home
Coronary Angiogram: What Is It?
Coronary Angioplasty: Returning Home
Deciding About Coronary Angiogram
Deciding About Taking Blood Pressure Medicine
Deciding About Taking Statins for High Cholesterol
Diabetes and Your Heart
Echocardiogram for Children
Electrocardiogram (EKG) for Children
Exercise Electrocardiogram (Stress Test)
Hands-Only CPR
Heart Disease and Depression
Heart Disease: Aspirin and Heart Attack Risk
Heart Disease: Commit to Making an Exercise Plan
Heart Disease: Every Step Matters
Heart Disease: Getting Back on Track
Heart Disease: Making Peace With Medicines
Heart Disease: Moving Forward
Heart Disease: Women Are at Risk Too
Heart Disease: Your Risk for Heart Attack
Heart Failure: Being Active
Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight Daily
Heart Failure: Daily Symptom Checks
Heart Failure: How Support Can Help
Heart Failure: Learn to Recognize Symptoms
Heart Failure: Limiting Fluids
Heart Failure: Limiting Sodium
Heart Failure: Medicines to Avoid
Heart Failure: Practice Tracking Sodium
Heart Failure: Self-Care
Heart Failure: Small Steps to Self-Care
Heart Failure: Support After Your Hospital Stay
Heart Failure: Taking an ACE Inhibitor or ARB
Heart Failure: Taking Over-the-Counter Medicines Safely
Heart Failure: Track Your Symptoms
Heart Failure: When to Act on Your Symptoms
Heart Failure: When to Call for Help
Heart Failure: Your Reason to Be Active
Heart Health: Finding Support for Healthy Changes
Heart Health: Where Will You Be in 5 Years?
Heart Problems: What Is Cardiac Rehab?
Heart Valve Replacement Surgery
Heart-Healthy Diet
High Blood Pressure: Make the Most of Home Monitoring
High Blood Pressure: The DASH Diet
High Cholesterol: Barriers to Taking Statins
How a Heart Attack Happens
How to Prevent a Second Heart Attack
How to Put On Compression Stockings
Is It A Heart Attack?
Learning About Risk for Heart Attack and Stroke
Lifestyle Changes for High Cholesterol
Lifestyle Changes to Lower Blood Pressure
Low-Dose Aspirin for Heart Disease
Medicine for High Blood Pressure
Open-Heart Surgery: Returning Home
Pacemaker Placement: About Your Procedure
Pacemaker Placement: Returning Home
Plaque, Platelets, and Heart Attack
Preventing Blood Clots in Leg Veins
Preventing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) After Surgery
Preventing Heart Disease
Preventing Heart Disease in Women: First Steps
Statins Are Important After a Heart Attack
Stroke Prevention: Should You Have a Carotid Artery Procedure?
Stroke Recovery: Finding What Inspires You
Stroke Recovery: Using Support to Stay Positive
Stroke: Know the Signs and Act FAST
Taking Blood Pressure at Home
Taking Blood Pressure Medicine: How Others Decided
Taking Statins: How Others Decided
The Effects of High Blood Pressure
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
What Is Atrial Fibrillation?
What Is High Blood Pressure?
What Platelets Do
Why High Cholesterol Needs Treatment
Your Child's Cardiac Catheterization for PDA: Before the Procedure
Your Child's Cardiac Catheterization for PDA: Returning Home
Your Child's Electrophysiology Study and Ablation: Before the Procedure
Your Child's Electrophysiology Study and Ablation: Returning Home
Immunizations and Vaccines
Benefits of Flu Shots
Pneumococcal Vaccine
Why Get Your Child Immunized?
Why Get Your Older Child or Teen Immunized?
Infectious Diseases
Avoiding Infections in the Hospital
Benefits of Flu Shots
Children and Cough and Cold Medicines
Hospital Isolation Rooms
Managing a Croup Attack
Taking Care of Pinkeye at Home
What Is Sepsis?
Why Children Don't Need Antibiotics for Colds or Flu
Why Get a Chlamydia Test?
Injuries and Wounds
Blister Care
Care for a Skin Wound
Care for Minor Burns
Caring for a Drain After Surgery
Caring for Your Child's IV Site
Caring for Your Implanted Port
Caring for Your PICC or Central IV Line
Diabetes and Wound Care
How to Stop a Nosebleed
How to Wear a Sling
How to Wrap a Sprained Ankle
Insect Bites and Stings: Here's Help
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
Packing a Wound at Home
Poison Ivy, Oak, or Sumac: What to Do First
RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation
Taking Care of a Cast or Splint
Taking Care of Stitches
Kidneys and Urinary System
Caring for Your Urinary Catheter
Diabetes: You Can Slow Kidney Damage
Dialysis: Caring for Your Vascular Access at Home
Dialysis: Living Better with Dialysis
Dialysis: What Is It?
Dialysis: Your Vascular Access
Hemodialysis Access: When Is the Right Time?
Kidney Disease: Helping You Choose Your Treatment
Kidney Donation: Lexi and Scott’s Story
Kidney Donation: Linda and Jane’s Story
Kidney Donation: Lori and Rob’s Story
Kidney Transplant: Before Your Surgery
Kidney Transplant: Returning Home
Learning About Your Child's Voiding Cystourethrogram (VCUG) Test
Pelvic Exercises for Urinary Incontinence
Starting Dialysis: Your Options
Treatment Options for Failing Kidneys
Urinary Incontinence: Talk to Your Doctor
Urinary Tract Infection: Here's Help
Lab and Diagnostic Tests
Benefits of a Pap Test
Complete Blood Count (CBC) Test: Understanding the Test
Deciding About Coronary Angiogram
Diabetes: A1c Test
Diabetes: Finger-Stick Test
Diabetes: Stay in Your Target Range
Diabetes: Testing Your Blood Sugar
Echocardiogram for Children
Electrocardiogram (EKG) for Children
Exercise Electrocardiogram (Stress Test)
HIV: Understanding The Test
Learning About Blood Tests for Children
Learning About Your Child's CT Scan
Learning About Your Child's MRI Test
Learning About Your Child's Voiding Cystourethrogram (VCUG) Test
Learning About Your Child's X-Ray Test
Learning About Your CT Scan
Learning About Your MRI Test
Learning About Your X-Ray Test
Tests for Low Back Pain
Urine Tests for Children
Why Are Blood Tests Needed With Some Medicines?
Why Get a Chlamydia Test?
Your Child's Electrophysiology Study and Ablation: Before the Procedure
Your Child's Electrophysiology Study and Ablation: Returning Home
Lungs and Breathing
Asthma: Helping a Young Child Take Medicine
Asthma: Is Your Child Using the Rescue Inhaler Too Often?
Asthma: Keeping Your Child Out of the Hospital
Asthma: Myths About Inhaled Steroids
Asthma: The Importance of Controller Medicines
Asthma: What Happens In Your Lungs
Avoiding COPD Triggers
Beat Your Smoking Triggers
Benefits of Flu Shots
Bronchoscopy
Checking Peak Flow
Children and Cough and Cold Medicines
COPD: Clearing Your Lungs
COPD: Eating Well for Strength and Energy
COPD: Exercises for Building Strength
COPD: Exercises for Easier Breathing
COPD: How To Use a Nebulizer
COPD: Keep Your Quality of Life
COPD: Take This Chance to Quit Smoking
COPD: Taking Medicines After a Flare-Up
COPD: Time to Decide About Smoking
COPD: Try a New Quit-Smoking Strategy
COPD: You Can Still Be Active
Cystic Fibrosis: Caring for Your Child at Home
Cystic Fibrosis: What It Means for You and Your Child
Dealing With Asthma Triggers
Helping Your Child Deal With Asthma
How Secondhand Smoke Affects Your Child
How to Use a Nebulizer With a Mask
How to Use an Incentive Spirometer
Learning About Your Child's Bronchoscopy
Learning About Your Child's Laryngoscopy
Long-Acting Bronchodilators for Your Child
Managing a Croup Attack
Nicotine and the Brain
Parent or Smoker: How Does Your Child See You?
Pneumonia: Self-Care
Quit Smoking: How Medicines Can Help
Quit Smoking: How to Tell Your Friends
Quit Smoking: Keep Your Social Life
Quitting Smoking: Dealing With a Slip-Up
Quitting Smoking: Have Your Own Reason
Quitting Smoking: It May Take Many Tries
Quitting Smoking: Medicines Increase Success Rates
Quitting Smoking: Medicines to Help With Cravings
Quitting Smoking: The Rewards Start Now
See Yourself as a Nonsmoker
Sleep Apnea: Having Trouble With CPAP?
Sleep Apnea: How Is It Treated?
Sleep Apnea: How Treatment Can Improve Your Life
Sleep Apnea: Time to Get Checked
Sleep Apnea: Using CPAP
Sleep Apnea: What Is it?
Smoker's Cough: What Do You Tell Yourself?
Spirometry Tests for Children
Stories From People Controlling Their Asthma
Teaching Your Child to Use an Inhaler With a Spacer
Teenagers: Feeling Different Because of Asthma
Testing for Asthma in Children
Tracheostomy
Tracheostomy: Returning Home
Traveling With Oxygen
Using a Dry Powder Inhaler
Using a Metered-Dose Inhaler With a Spacer
Using a Metered-Dose Inhaler Without a Spacer
Using an Inhaler and Spacer
Using Oxygen Therapy at Home
Using Oxygen: Tips for Cannula and Skin Care
What Happens to Your Lungs in COPD
What Is a Sleep Study?
Why Children Don't Need Antibiotics for Colds or Flu
Why You Don't Need Antibiotics for Bronchitis
Medications
ACE Inhibitors and ARBS: Helping Blood Flow Better
After a Stroke: Taking a Blood Thinner for A-fib
After a Stroke: Taking an Antiplatelet
Anesthesia: Epidural for Childbirth
Anesthesia: Peripheral Nerve Block
Anesthesia: Spinal
Antidepressants: Keeping Your Life in Balance
Asthma: Helping a Young Child Take Medicine
Asthma: Is Your Child Using the Rescue Inhaler Too Often?
Asthma: Myths About Inhaled Steroids
Asthma: The Importance of Controller Medicines
Beta Blockers: Helping Your Heart Relax
Beta-Blockers After a Heart Attack
Caring for Your Implanted Port
Caring for Your PICC or Central IV Line
Children and Cough and Cold Medicines
Chronic Pain and Opiates: Know What's Safe
COPD: How To Use a Nebulizer
COPD: Taking Medicines After a Flare-Up
Deciding About Taking Blood Pressure Medicine
Deciding About Taking Statins for High Cholesterol
Depression Medicine: Deciding to Stop
Depression Medicine: Side Effects
Depression Medicines
Depression: Balancing Brain Chemicals
Depression: Cost of Medicines
Diabetes: Insulin's Role
Diuretics: Making Them Easier To Take
Epidural Anesthesia
General Anesthesia
Heart Disease: Aspirin and Heart Attack Risk
Heart Disease: Making Peace With Medicines
Heart Failure: Medicines to Avoid
Heart Failure: Taking an ACE Inhibitor or ARB
Heart Failure: Taking Over-the-Counter Medicines Safely
Here's Help: How to Apply a Topical Cream for Your Child
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Ear Drops
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Eyedrops or Ointment
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Oral Medicine
Here's Help: How to Give Yourself Eyedrops or Eye Ointment
Here's Help: How to Insert Your Child's Suppository
Here's Help: How to Use Nasal Spray or Drops for Your Child
High Cholesterol: Barriers to Taking Statins
Hormone Therapy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
How to Give a Glucagon Shot
How to Give a Heparin Shot
How to Give a Subcutaneous Injection
How to Give an Epinephrine Shot to a Child
How to Give Yourself an Epinephrine Shot
How to Give Yourself an Insulin Shot in Your Arm
How to Use a Nebulizer With a Mask
Insulin: How to Prepare a Mixed Dose
Insulin: How to Prepare a Single Dose
Long-Acting Bronchodilators for Your Child
Low-Dose Aspirin for Heart Disease
Managing Your Medicines
Medicine for High Blood Pressure
Medicines for Depression
Metformin and You: A Winning Strategy
Pneumococcal Vaccine
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Could You Have a Problem?
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Getting Back on Track
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Setting Goals for Quitting
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Support for Recovery
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Treatment Options
Preventing Falls: Medicine Safety
Quit Smoking: How Medicines Can Help
Quitting Smoking: Medicines Increase Success Rates
Quitting Smoking: Medicines to Help With Cravings
Statins Are Important After a Heart Attack
Taking Blood Pressure Medicine: How Others Decided
Taking Medicine to Stop a Migraine
Taking Statins: How Others Decided
Teaching Your Child to Use an Inhaler With a Spacer
Using a Dry Powder Inhaler
Using a Metered-Dose Inhaler With a Spacer
Using a Metered-Dose Inhaler Without a Spacer
Using an Inhaler and Spacer
What Are Opioids?
Why Are Blood Tests Needed With Some Medicines?
Why Get Your Child Immunized?
Why Get Your Older Child or Teen Immunized?
Why You Don't Need Antibiotics for Bronchitis
Mental Health
4 Tips to Encourage Self-Discipline in Teens
5 Tips to Help Your Teen Manage Conflict
5 Tips to Teach Kids About Money
5 Ways to Help Your Child Build Resilience
6 Tips to Build Healthy Gaming Habits
6 Ways to Help Your Teen Manage Money
A Good Support System Is Important
Advanced Cancer: Finding Hope
Antidepressants: Keeping Your Life in Balance
Anxiety: How to Change Anxious Thoughts
Anxiety: Is Treatment Right for You?
Anxiety: Paying Attention to How You're Doing
Anxiety: Treatment Options
Anxiety: What Is It?
Building Resilience
Cancer: Adjusting Over Time
Cancer: Dealing With Stress
Cancer: Finding Peace in Spirituality
Cancer: Finding Your Strength
Cancer: How It Affects Your Relationships
Cancer: How to Talk to Your Children
Cancer: Life After Treatment
Cancer: Understanding Your Feelings
Cancer: When You First Find Out
Cancer: Your Support Network
Caregiving: Take Care of Yourself Too
Changing Negative Thoughts
Chronic Pain: Managing Pain With Healthy Thinking
Counseling for Depression
Depression is Common
Depression Medicine: Deciding to Stop
Depression Medicine: Side Effects
Depression Medicines
Depression: Balancing Brain Chemicals
Depression: Cost of Medicines
Depression: How It Affects Your Body
Depression: Mood Check-In to Prevent a Relapse
Depression: Outside Looking In
Depression: Rating Your Mood
Depression: Social Support and Recovery
Diabetes: How Others Stay Motivated
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Grief: Coping After Stillbirth
Heart Disease and Depression
Helping Your Teen Develop Healthy Cell Phone Habits
How to Stop Negative Thoughts
How Your Body Reacts to Stress
Medicines for Depression
Mindfulness: Breathing Exercise
Mindfulness: Breathing Practice
Positive Thinking
Positive Thinking for Weight Control
Positive Thinking: Susan's Story
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Could You Have a Problem?
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Getting Back on Track
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Setting Goals for Quitting
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Support for Recovery
Prescription Medicine Misuse: Treatment Options
PTSD: Checking In With Yourself
PTSD: Finding Yourself Again
PTSD: Having a Plan
PTSD: Signs and Symptoms
PTSD: Treatment Options
Rediscover Your Inner Strength
Relaxation Exercise: Deep Breathing
Relaxation Exercise: Guided Imagery
Stories From People Recovering From Depression
Stories From People With New Depression
Stories From People With Recurring Depression
Stress Management: Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Stress Management: Relaxing Your Muscles
Stress Management: Roll Breathing
Stress Management: Using Yoga to Relax
Stroke Recovery: Finding What Inspires You
Stroke Recovery: Using Support to Stay Positive
Stroke: Understanding Your Emotions
Teens: Who Do You See in the Mirror?
The Pain-Mood Connection
Tips for Finding a Counselor or Therapist
Treatment for Depression
Weight and Your Mind
Mouth and Teeth
Feeding Habits for Healthy Teeth
Fluoride for Healthy Teeth
Importance of Early Dental Care
Rethink your Drink for Healthier Teeth
Sippy Cups and Tooth Decay
Tooth Brushing for a Growing Mouth
Nutrition
BMI, Waist Size, and Your Health
Breast-Feeding: Getting My Baby to Latch
Caring for Your Feeding Tube
Caring for Your Newborn: Feeding
COPD: Eating Well for Strength and Energy
Deciding About Weight-Loss Surgery
Diabetes: Food and Your Blood Sugar
Five Ingredients for Healthy Eating
Five Tips for Healthy Eating
Healthy Eating Pays Off
Healthy Eating: Getting Back on Track
Healthy Eating: How to Build Your Plate
Healthy Eating: Resisting Temptation in Social Situations
Healthy Eating: What Will Make It Work for You?
Healthy Weight: Make Your Plan
Healthy Weight: What Works
Healthy Weight: When Success Slows Down
Heart Failure: Limiting Fluids
Heart Failure: Limiting Sodium
Heart-Healthy Diet
High Blood Pressure: The DASH Diet
High Cholesterol: Barriers to Taking Statins
Lifestyle Changes for High Cholesterol
Lifestyle Changes to Lower Blood Pressure
Making Meals With Less Sodium
Positive Thinking for Weight Control
Prediabetes: Healthy Changes You Can Make
Pregnancy: Eating the Right Foods
Teens and Healthy Eating: What Gets in Your Way?
Weight and Your Mind
Weight-Loss Surgery: How Others Decided
What Is a Vitamin K Diet?
Pain
Back Pain Needs Time, Medicine, and Activity
Back Pain: Getting In and Out of Bed
Back Pain: Have a Maintenance Plan
Back Pain: Self-Massage With a Tennis Ball
Back Pain: Strengthening Your Core
Chronic Low Back Pain: Time for Something New
Chronic Pain and Opiates: Know What's Safe
Chronic Pain: Finding Your Strength
Chronic Pain: How Medicines Can Help You Manage It
Chronic Pain: Managing Pain With Healthy Thinking
Chronic Pain: Tracking How You're Doing
Chronic Pain: Treatments Other Than Medicine
Heat or Ice for Low Back Pain
Home Treatment for Herniated Disc Pain
Hot and Cold Therapy for Arthritis
Living With Chronic Pain
Low Back Pain: Keep Moving
Low Back Pain: Keeping It From Coming Back
Managing Pain While You're in The Hospital
Pregnancy: Dealing With Back Pain
Tests for Low Back Pain
The Pain-Mood Connection
Physical Rehabilitation
Arthritis: Making Everyday Activities Easier
Back Pain: Self-Massage With a Tennis Ball
Back Pain: Strengthening Your Core
Cardiac Rehab: How It Can Help
Getting Up Safely After a Fall
Hip Replacement: When Can You Be Active Again?
How to Get Moving While in the Hospital
Knee Arthritis: Nonsurgical Treatments
Knee Arthritis: Treatments
Knee Arthritis: What Can I Expect?
Knee Replacement: Learning About Rehab
Knee Replacement: When Can You Be Active Again?
Low Back Pain: Keep Moving
Low Back Pain: Keeping It From Coming Back
Spinal Stenosis: Home Treatment and Physical Therapy
Stroke Recovery: Finding What Inspires You
Stroke Recovery: Using Support to Stay Positive
Stroke: What Is Stroke Rehab?
Using a Cane
Using a Walker
Using Crutches
Planning Ahead
Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning – No fear, no regrets
Advance Care Planning – The Health Care Provider Perspective
Chronic Illness and Advance Care Planning
Goals of Care Designations
Green Sleeve
Having an Advance Care Plan brings peace of mind (cancer)
Paramedics and Advance Care Planning
The benefits of having an Advance Care Plan in place
Pregnancy
Anesthesia: Epidural for Childbirth
Big Baby: Vaginal Tears
Big Baby: What if Baby's Shoulder Gets Stuck?
Big Baby: What's Happening at the End of Pregnancy?
Caring for Yourself After Cesarean Delivery
Caring for Yourself After Vaginal Delivery
Diabetes: Planning for a Healthy Pregnancy
Diabetes: Preparing for Pregnancy
Gestational Diabetes: Activity
Gestational Diabetes: Avoiding Type 2 diabetes
Gestational Diabetes: Medicines
Gestational Diabetes: Reducing Risk
Gestational Diabetes: Testing Blood Sugar
Gestational Diabetes: What Causes It?
Gestational Diabetes: What Is It?
High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy
Managing Morning Sickness
Pregnancy: Dealing With Back Pain
Pregnancy: Eating the Right Foods
Pregnancy: How to Exercise Safely
Pregnancy: Signs of Preterm Labor
Pregnancy: Your First Weeks
Signs of Labor
VBAC or C-Section: What Birth Experience Feels Right for You?
VBAC: Choosing a Hospital
VBAC: Safe Labor After a Cesarean
VBAC: Why Alex Chose a Vaginal Birth
VBAC: Why Rachel Chose a Cesarean Birth
Seniors Health
Getting Up Safely After a Fall
Older Adults: Be Inspired to Get Active
Older Adults: Getting Active After a Health Scare
Older Adults: Making Physical Activity a Routine
Older Adults: Overcoming Barriers to Fitness
Preventing Falls in Older Adults
Preventing Falls in the Hospital
Preventing Falls: Make Your Home Safe
Preventing Falls: Medicine Safety
Preventing Falls: Use a Home Safety Checklist
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Benefits of a Pap Test
Deciding About a Hysterectomy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Endometrial Ablation
HIV: Understanding The Test
Hormone Therapy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Hysterectomy
Hysterectomy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: How Others Decided
Hysterectomy: Returning Home
Prostatectomy
Prostatectomy: Returning Home
Why Get a Chlamydia Test?
Skin, Hair and Nails
Acne: Here's Help
Blister Care
Care for a Skin Wound
Care for Minor Burns
Head Lice
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
Protecting Your Skin From The Sun
Skin Cancer Prevention: Checking Your Skin
Using Oxygen: Tips for Cannula and Skin Care
Traveller's Health
Traveling With Oxygen
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