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Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) Vaccine
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) Vaccine: What You Need to Know
Hair Analysis
Hair Loss
Hair Loss From Cancer Treatment
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Hairy Cell Leukemia Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI]
Hairy Cell Leukemia Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]
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Health Problems Associated With Adult Obesity
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Health Screening: Finding Health Problems Early
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Healthwise Self-Care Checklist: Do I Need to Go to the Doctor?
Healthwise Symptom Checker
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Healthy Aging: Is It Time to Stop Driving?
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Healthy Eating
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Healthy Eating in Social Situations (Video)
Healthy Eating: Changing Your Eating Habits
Healthy Eating: Cutting Unhealthy Fats From Your Diet
Healthy Eating: Eating Heart-Healthy Foods
Healthy Eating: Eating Less Sodium
Healthy Eating: Getting Back on Track (Video)
Healthy Eating: Getting Support When Changing Your Eating Habits
Healthy Eating: Make It Work for You (Video)
Healthy Eating: Making Healthy Choices When You Eat Out
Healthy Eating: Making Healthy Choices When You Shop
Healthy Eating: Making Meals With Less Sodium (Video)
Healthy Eating: Overcoming Barriers to Change
Healthy Eating: Recognizing Your Hunger Signals
Healthy Eating: Starting a Plan for Change
Healthy Eating: Staying With Your Plan
Healthy Habits for Kids
Healthy Habits to Prevent Osteoporosis
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Healthy Weight: Find Your Inspiration (Video)
Healthy Weight: Make Your Plan (Video)
Healthy Weight: What Works (Video)
Healthy Weight: When Success Slows Down (Video)
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Heart Attack and Stroke in Women: Reducing Your Risk
Heart Attack and Stroke Risk Screening
Heart Attack and Stroke: A Woman's Risk (Video)
Heart Attack and Stroke: Lowering a Woman's Risk (Video)
Heart attack: Fast facts (Video)
Heart Attack: How to Prevent Another One
Heart Block
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Heart Failure and Sexual Activity
Heart Failure Daily Action Plan
Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (Diastolic Heart Failure)
Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (Systolic Heart Failure)
Heart Failure: Activity and Exercise
Heart Failure: Avoiding Medicines That Make Symptoms Worse
Heart Failure: Being Active (Video)
Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight
Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight Daily (Video)
Heart Failure: Compensation by the Heart and Body
Heart failure: Fast facts (Video)
Heart Failure: How Support Can Help (Video)
Heart Failure: Learn to Recognize Symptoms (Video)
Heart Failure: Limiting Fluids (Video)
Heart Failure: Limiting Sodium (Video)
Heart Failure: Living Better by Caring for Yourself (Video)
Heart Failure: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)?
Heart Failure: Support After Your Hospital Stay (Video)
Heart Failure: Taking Medicines (Video)
Heart Failure: Taking Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medicines (Video)
Heart Failure: Tips for Easier Breathing
Heart Failure: Track Your Weight, Food, and Sodium
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Heart Failure: What Are Daily Symptom Checks? (Video)
Heart Failure: What Is It? (Video)
Heart Failure: When to Act on Your Symptoms (Video)
Heart Failure: Your Reason to Be Active (Video)
Heart Health: Finding Support for Healthy Changes (Video)
Heart Health: Walking for a Healthy Heart
Heart Health: Where Will You Be in 5 Years? (Video)
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Heart Rate Problems: Should I Get a Pacemaker?
Heart Rhythm Problems and Driving
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Heart Rhythm Problems: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)?
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Heart Tests: When Do You Need Them?
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Heart Valve Repair or Replacement: Before Your Surgery (Video)
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Helping Your Child Build Inner Strength
Helping Your Child Build Self-Esteem
Helping Your Child Deal With Asthma (Video)
Helping Your Child Manage Their Emotional Reactions
Helping Your Child Prevent and Manage Seizures (Video)
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Hemochromatosis Gene (HFE) Test
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Hemodialysis Access: When Is the Right Time? (Video)
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Hemophilia: Preventing Bleeding Episodes
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Hemorrhoidectomy: Before Your Surgery (Video)
Hemorrhoidectomy: Returning Home (Video)
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Hepatitis A Vaccine: What You Need to Know
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Hepatitis B Vaccine: What You Need to Know
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Hepatitis C in Pregnancy
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Hepatitis E
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Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer (PDQ®): Genetics - Health Professional Information [NCI]
Hereditary Kidney Cancer Syndromes (PDQ®): Genetics - Patient Information [NCI]
Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer (PDQ®): Genetics - Health Professional Information [NCI]
Hereditary Papillary Renal Carcinoma (PDQ®): Genetics - Health Professional Information [NCI]
Here's Help: How to Apply a Topical Cream for Your Child (Video)
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Eardrops (Video)
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Eyedrops or Eye Ointment (Video)
Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Oral Medicine (Video)
Here's Help: How to Give Yourself Eyedrops or Eye Ointment (Video)
Here's Help: How to Insert Your Child's Suppository (Video)
Here's Help: How to Use Nasal Spray or Drops for Your Child (Video)
Here's Help: Mild Dehydration in Your Baby or Child (Video)
Here's Help: Mild Head Injury (Bump, Cut, or Scrape) in Children (Video)
Here's Help: Mild Heat Exhaustion in Children (Video)
Here's Help: Mild Sunburn in Children (Video)
Here's Help: Minor Burn in Children (Video)
Here's Help: When Your Newborn Is Sick (Video)
Herniated Disc Surgery: How Others Decided (Video)
Herniated disc: Fast Facts (Video)
Heroin
Herpes Tests
Hiatal Hernia
Hiccups
HIDA Scan
Hidden Gluten
Hidradenitis Suppurativa
High Blood Pressure (Browse Topics)
High Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy
High Blood Pressure in Children and Teens
High Blood Pressure: Checking Your Blood Pressure at Home
High Blood Pressure: Make the Most of Home Monitoring (Video)
High Blood Pressure: Nutrition Tips
High Blood Pressure: Over-the-Counter Medicines to Avoid
High Blood Pressure: Should I Take Medicine?
High Blood Pressure: Taking Medicines Properly
High Blood Pressure: The DASH Diet (Video)
High Blood Pressure: Using the DASH Diet
High Cholesterol
High Cholesterol: How a Dietitian Can Help
High Cholesterol: Making Lifestyle Changes
High Triglycerides
High-Potassium Foods
High-Pressure Injection Wounds
High-Protein Foods for Wound Healing
High-Risk Pregnancy
High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hs-CRP) Test
Hip Bursitis or Tendon Injury: Preventing Pain
Hip Fracture
Hip Fracture Repair (Hip Pinning)
Hip Fracture Surgery (Video)
Hip Injuries, Age 11 and Younger
Hip Injuries, Age 12 and Older
Hip Problems, Age 11 and Younger
Hip Problems, Age 12 and Older
Hip Repair Surgery: Returning Home (Video)
Hip Replacement Surgery: How Others Decided (Video)
Hip Replacement Surgery: Returning Home (Video)
Hip Replacement: Before Your Surgery (Video)
Hip Replacement: When Can You Be Active Again? (Video)
Hirschsprung Disease
Histrelin Implant
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) Infection
HIV and Exercise
HIV and Fatigue
HIV and Pregnancy
HIV Screening
HIV Treatment in Children
HIV Viral Load
HIV Viral Load Test
HIV: Nonprogressors and HIV-Resistant People
HIV: Preventing Infections
HIV: Taking Antiretroviral Medicines
HIV: Understanding the Test (Video)
Hoarding Disorder
Hodgkin Lymphoma
Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI]
Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]
Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment During Pregnancy (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI]
Home Blood Pressure Log
Home Blood Pressure Test
Home Blood Sugar Diary
Home Blood Sugar Test
Home Ear Examination
Home Health Care: What to Expect (Video)
Home Lung Function Test
Home Pregnancy Tests
Home Test for Urinary Tract Infections
Home Treatment First Aid for Cold Exposure
Home Treatment for Herniated Disc Pain (Video)
Home Treatment for Second-Degree Burns
Homeopathy
Homocysteine
Homocystinuria
Hormonal Birth Control: Risk of Blood Clots
Hormone Inhibin A Test
Hormone Therapy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (Video)
Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer (Androgen Deprivation Therapy, or ADT)
Hormone Treatment for Breast Cancer
Hormones (Browse Topics)
Hospice (PDQ®): Supportive care - Health Professional Information [NCI]
Hospice Care
Hospital Discharge Planning
Hospital Isolation Rooms
Hospital Isolation Rooms (Video)
Hospital Patient Advocates
Hospital Policies and Breastfeeding
Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (Nosocomial Pneumonia)
Hot and Cold Therapy for Arthritis (Video)
Hot Flashes and Night Sweats (PDQ®): Supportive care - Health Professional Information [NCI]
Hot Flashes and Night Sweats (PDQ®): Supportive care - Patient Information [NCI]
How a Heart Attack Happens (Video)
How ADHD Affects Your Child
How Adolescent Thinking Develops
How and When to Give Naloxone (Video)
How Birth Control Methods Prevent Pregnancy
How Diabetes Causes Blindness
How Diabetes Causes Foot Problems
How Others Manage Diabetes (Video)
How Plaque Increases the Risk of a Heart Attack (Video)
How Pregnancy (Conception) Occurs
How Reading Helps Language Development
How Secondhand Smoke Affects Your Child (Video)
How the Heart Works
How to advocate for your health (Video)
How to Build Well-Being
How to Calm a Crying Baby (Video)
How to Check Your Heart Rate (Video)
How to Do a Hamstring Stretch While Sitting (Video)
How to Do Ankle Pumps (Video)
How to Do Calf Stretches While Sitting (Video)
How to Do Chair Push-Ups (Video)
How to Do Curl-Ups (Video)
How to Do Glute Sets (Video)
How to Do Guided Imagery (Video)
How to Do Heel Raises (Video)
How to Do Heel Slides (Video)
How to Do Mindfulness Meditation (Video)
How to Do Progressive Muscle Relaxation (Video)
How to Do Quad Sets (Video)
How to Do Short-Arc (Terminal) Knee Extensions While Standing (Video)
How to Do Stationary Biking for Knee Rehab (Video)
How to Do Step-Up and Step-Down Exercises (Video)
How to Do Straight-Leg Raises (Video)
How to Do the Bird Dog Exercise (Video)
How to Do the Bridging Exercise (Video)
How to Do the Hamstring Stretch in a Doorway (Video)
How to Do the Hip Abduction Exercise (Video)
How to Do the Hip Flexor Stretch (Video)
How to Do the Knee Flexion Stretch While Sitting (Video)
How to Do the Long-Arc Quad Exercise (Video)
How to Do the Passive Knee Stretch (Video)
How to Do the Pelvic Tilt Exercise (Video)
How to Do the Press-Up Exercise (Video)
How to Do the Short-Arc Quad Exercise (Video)
How to Do the Single Knee-to-Chest Exercise (Video)
How to Do the Single-Leg Balance Exercise (Video)
How to Do the Wall Sit Exercise (Video)
How to Drain Blood From Under a Nail (Video)
How to Eat Healthy When You're Home All The Time
How to Find Sodium
How to Get Help During a Mental Health Crisis (Video)
How to Get Moving While in the Hospital (Video)
How to Get Rid of Medicines
How to Get Up Safely After a Fall
How to Give a Glucagon Shot (Video)
How to Give a Subcutaneous Injection (Video)
How to Give an Epinephrine Shot to a Child (Video)
How to Give an Intramuscular Injection (Video)
How to Give Yourself an Anticoagulant (Blood Thinner) Shot (Video)
How to Give Yourself an Epinephrine Shot (Video)
How to Hand Express Breast Milk (Video)
How to Help Someone During a Seizure (Video)
How to Help Your Child Prevent a Fall in the Hospital (Video)
How to Overcome Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) (Video)
How to Prevent a Second Heart Attack (Video)
How to Prevent Abusive Head Trauma (Video)
How to Put On Compression Stockings (Video)
How to Stop a Nosebleed (Video)
How to Swaddle Safely (Video)
How to Take Birth Control Pills
How to Teach Your Child by Example
How to Track Your Stress
How to Use a Breast Pump (Video)
How to Use a Nebulizer With a Mask (Video)
How to Use an Incentive Spirometer (Video)
How to Use an Insulin Pen (Video)
How to Use Glucagon Nasal Spray (Video)
How to Wear a Mask to Help Prevent Respiratory Infections (Video)
How to Wear a Sling (Video)
How to Wrap a Sprained Ankle (Video)
How You Can Help Manage Your Child's Pain in the Hospital (Video)
How You Can Help Older Adults Stay Connected
How Your Mind and Body React to Stress (Video)
HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Vaccine: What You Need to Know
HPV: Should I Get the Vaccine?
HPV: Should My Child Get the Vaccine?
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) Test
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Test
Human Insulin Injection
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test of the Cervix
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine (Cervarix)
Humor Therapy
Hunger, Fullness, and Appetite Signals
Huntington Disease Genetic Test
Hydralazine
Hydrazine Sulfate (PDQ®): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Health Professional Information [NCI]
Hydrazine Sulfate (PDQ®): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Patient Information [NCI]
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Hydromorphone Rectal
Hydronephrosis: Fast Facts (Video)
Hydrotherapy
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
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Hypertension (high blood pressure): Fast Facts (Video)
Hypertensive Emergency
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Hyperthyroidism: Graves' Ophthalmopathy
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Types
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Risk of Sudden Death
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Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar) in People Without Diabetes
Hypoglycemic Unawareness: Taking Steps to Stay Safe
Hypokalemia
Hyponatremia
Hypopharyngeal Cancer Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI]
Hypopharyngeal Cancer Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]
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Hypothermia and Cold Temperature Exposure
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Hysterectomy
Hysterectomy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: How Others Decided (Video)
Hysterectomy: Before Your Surgery (Video)
Hysterectomy: Returning Home (Video)
Hysterectomy: Should I Also Have My Ovaries Removed?
Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
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