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Addiction help
Alcohol and Substance Abuse
- Alcohol: Does it affect blood pressure?
- Drug addiction (substance use disorder)
- Intervention: Help a loved one overcome addiction
- Teen drug abuse: Help your teen avoid drugs
Asthma
Blood Clots
Blood Pressure
Cancer
- Breast cancer prevention: How to reduce your risk
- Cancer causes: Popular myths about the causes of cancer
- Pain and depression: Is there a link?
- Video: Colonoscopy
Colon Cancer
COVID-19
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus disease: What is it and how can I protect myself?
- COVID-19 (coronavirus) drugs: Are there any that work?
- COVID-19 (coronavirus) in babies and children
- COVID-19 (coronavirus) vaccine: Get the facts
- COVID-19 (coronavirus): Long-term effects
- COVID-19 and your mental health
- COVID-19 antibody testing
- COVID-19 diagnostic testing
- COVID-19 vs. flu: Similarities and differences
- COVID-19: How much protection do face masks offer?
- COVID-19: Who's at higher risk of serious symptoms?
- Fight coronavirus transmission at home
- Herd immunity and COVID-19 (coronavirus): What you need to know
- How do COVID-19 antibody tests differ from diagnostic tests?
- How to measure your respiratory rate
- How to take your pulse
Diabetes
- A1C test
- Blood sugar testing: Why, when and how
- Diabetes and depression: Coping with the two conditions
- Diabetes and exercise: When to monitor your blood sugar
- Diabetes nutrition: Eating out when you have diabetes
- Diabetic coma
- Protein: Heart-healthy sources
- Type 1 diabetes in children
- Video: How diabetes affects your blood sugar
Diet and Nutrition
- Diabetes nutrition: Eating out when you have diabetes
- Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high blood pressure
- Menus for heart-healthy eating: Cut the fat and salt
- Protein: Heart-healthy sources
- Trans fat is double trouble for your heart health
- Vegetarian diet: How to get the best nutrition
- Walking: Is it enough for weight loss?
Exercise
- 10 ways to control high blood pressure without medication
- 10,000 steps a day: Too low? Too high?
- 5K run: 7-week training schedule for beginners
- Depression and anxiety: Exercise eases symptoms
- Diabetes and exercise: When to monitor your blood sugar
- Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high blood pressure
- Get walking with this 12-week walking schedule
- Kids and exercise: How much activity do they need?
- LDC Exercise Video 1
- LDC Exercise Video 2
- Slide show: Yoga poses
- Video: Reverse crunch with fitness ball
- Walking: Is it enough for weight loss?
- Walking: Make it count with activity trackers
- Walking: Trim your waistline, improve your health
Flu
Health Conditions
- Belly fat in men: Why weight loss matters
- Belly fat in women: Taking — and keeping — it off
- How well do you wash your hands?
- Sickle cell anemia
- Video: How diabetes affects your blood sugar
Heart
Heart Disease
- Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high blood pressure
- Heart disease in women: Understand symptoms and risk factors
- LDC Exercise Video 1
- Menus for heart-healthy eating: Cut the fat and salt
- Protein: Heart-healthy sources
- Strategies to prevent heart disease
- Trans fat is double trouble for your heart health
- Video: Heart and circulatory system
Hypertension
- 10 ways to control high blood pressure without medication
- Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high blood pressure
- Menus for heart-healthy eating: Cut the fat and salt
- Protein: Heart-healthy sources
- Sleep deprivation: A cause of high blood pressure?
- Video: How to measure blood pressure using a manual monitor
- Video: What is blood pressure?
Leukemia Cancer
Lung Disease
Lymphocytic Leukemia Cancer
Meditation - Stress
Mental Wellness
- 10 ways to control high blood pressure without medication
- Antidepressants for children and teens
- Depression and anxiety: Exercise eases symptoms
- Depression: Diagnosis is key
- Depression: Provide support, encouragement
- Diabetes and depression: Coping with the two conditions
- Male depression: Understanding the issues
- Pain and depression: Is there a link?
- Slide show: Yoga poses
- Teen depression
- Video: Need to relax? Take a break for meditation
Musculoskeletal Pain
- Back pain at work: Preventing pain and injury
- Leg pain
- Pain and depression: Is there a link?
- Slide show: Back exercises in 15 minutes a day
- Slide show: Causes of back pain
- Slide show: Sleeping positions that reduce back pain
Occupational Hazards
Physical Wellness
- Get walking with this 12-week walking schedule
- Kids and exercise: How much activity do they need?
- Walking: Make it count with activity trackers
- Walking: Trim your waistline, improve your health
Prevention
- Chronic kidney disease
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus disease: What is it and how can I protect myself?
- Flu mask: Should I wear one?
- Hand-washing: Do's and don'ts
- How to measure your respiratory rate
- How to take your pulse
- How well do you wash your hands?
- Hypercalcemia
- Kidney stones
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Video: Colonoscopy
- Video: How to measure blood pressure using a manual monitor
Sickle cell anemia
Sleep
- Lack of sleep: Can it make you sick?
- Sleep deprivation: A cause of high blood pressure?
- Slide show: Sleeping positions that reduce back pain
- Video: What happens during obstructive sleep apnea?
Sleep apnea
Teens
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