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Alcohol and Substance Abuse
- Blood pressure tip: Know alcohol limits
- Intervention: Help a loved one overcome addiction
- Teen drug abuse: Help your teen avoid drugs
- Underage drinking: Talking to your teen about alcohol
- What's considered moderate alcohol use?
Asthma
Cancer
- 3D mammogram
- 5 ways to avoid secondhand smoke
- Alternative cancer treatments: 10 options to consider
- 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
COVID-19
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus disease: What is it and how can I protect myself?
- COVID-19 (coronavirus) in babies and children
- Ebola virus and Marburg virus
- How to measure your respiratory rate
- How to take your pulse
- How to take your temperature
- How to talk to your kids about COVID-19
Diabetes
- Amputation and diabetes: How to protect your feet
- Blood sugar testing: Why, when and how
- Diabetes and depression: Coping with the two conditions
- Diabetes nutrition: Eating out when you have diabetes
- Diabetes symptoms: When diabetes symptoms are a concern
- Diabetes: Does alcohol and tobacco use increase my risk?
- Erectile dysfunction and diabetes: Take control today
- Protein: Heart-healthy sources
Diet and Nutrition
- 3 ways to make healthy habits stick
- Barbecue turkey burger
- Braised kale with cherry tomatoes
- Chicken sausage meatballs
- Children's nutrition: 10 tips for picky eaters
- Citrus seared salmon
- Crab cakes
- Diabetes nutrition: Eating out when you have diabetes
- Easy fish for four
- Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high blood pressure
- Fire roasted corn soup
- Food poisoning: How long can you safely keep leftovers?
- Healthier recipes? Delete 1 ingredient
- Healthy recipe: Breakfast burrito
- Menu planning: Eat healthier and spend less
- Menus for heart-healthy eating: Cut the fat and salt
- Protein: Heart-healthy sources
- Trans fat is double trouble for your heart health
- Vegetarian chili
- Vegetarian diet: How to get the best nutrition
Exercise
- 10 ways to control high blood pressure without medication
- 10,000 steps a day: Too low? Too high?
- 3 ways to make healthy habits stick
- 5K run: 7-week training schedule for beginners
- Cholesterol concerns? Get moving
- Depression and anxiety: Exercise eases symptoms
- Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high blood pressure
- Get walking with this 12-week walking schedule
- Healthy heart for life: Avoiding heart disease
- Kids and exercise: How much activity do they need?
- LDC Exercise Video 1
- LDC Exercise Video 2
- Runner's diarrhea: How can I prevent it?
- Slide show: Yoga poses
- The real secret to a healthy heart
- Walking for fitness: Staying motivated
- Walking: Make it count with activity trackers
Financial Wellness
Health Conditions
- Alzheimer's disease
- Alzheimer's disease: Anticipating end-of-life needs
- Butter vs. margarine: Which is better for my heart?
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- How well do you wash your hands?
Heart Disease
- Alzheimer's disease
- Alzheimer's: Dealing with daily challenges
- Butter vs. margarine: Which is better for my heart?
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Cholesterol concerns? Get moving
- Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high blood pressure
- Healthy heart for life: Avoiding heart disease
- Heart attack: First aid
- 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
- The real secret to a healthy heart
- Trans fat is double trouble for your heart health
- Video: Heart and circulatory system
Hypertension
- 10 ways to control high blood pressure without medication
- Blood pressure tip: Know alcohol limits
- 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?
Lung Disease
Mental Wellness
- 10 ways to control high blood pressure without medication
- 3 ways to become more stress resilient
- Antidepressants for children and teens
- Chronic stress: Can it cause depression?
- Clinical depression: What does that mean?
- College depression: What parents need to know
- Depression (major depressive disorder)
- 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
- Managing depression in MS
- Pain and depression: Is there a link?
- Slide show: Yoga poses
- Teen depression
- Treatment-resistant depression
Musculoskeletal Pain
- Arm pain
- Back pain at work: Preventing pain and injury
- Back surgery: When is it a good idea?
- Cortisone shots
- Elbow pain
- Foot pain
- Hip pain
- Hip replacement
- Leg pain
- Pain and depression: Is there a link?
- Shoulder pain
- 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
- 3 ways to make healthy habits stick
- Get walking with this 12-week walking schedule
- Healthy heart for life: Avoiding heart disease
- Kids and exercise: How much activity do they need?
- Runner's diarrhea: How can I prevent it?
- Walking: Make it count with activity trackers
Prevention
- 8 ways to improve sleep quality as you age
- Alcohol poisoning
- Butter vs. margarine: Which is better for my heart?
- Cardiac asthma: What causes it?
- Chronic kidney disease
- College depression: What parents need to know
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus disease: What is it and how can I protect myself?
- Ebola virus and Marburg virus
- Eye exam
- Flu mask: Should I wear one?
- Germs: Understand and protect against bacteria, viruses and infection
- Hand drying reduces spread of germs
- Hand-washing: Do's and don'ts
- Healthy heart for life: Avoiding heart disease
- How to measure your respiratory rate
- How to take your pulse
- How to take your temperature
- How to talk to your kids about COVID-19
- How well do you wash your hands?
- Hypercalcemia
- Kidney stones
- Managing depression in MS
- Multiple myeloma
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Runner's diarrhea: How can I prevent it?
- Self-care for the flu
- Staying healthy in school: Kid-friendly tips
- Video: Colonoscopy
- Video: How to measure blood pressure using a manual monitor
- What is MERS-CoV, and what should I do?
Rehabilitation exercises
Safety
- Children and sports: Choices for all ages
- Food poisoning: How long can you safely keep leftovers?
- Home safety tips: Preparing for Alzheimer's caregiving
- Winter fitness: Safety tips for exercising outdoors
Sexual Health
Sleep
- 8 ways to improve sleep quality as you age
- Lack of sleep: Can it make you sick?
- Skip booze for better sleep
- Sleep deprivation: A cause of high blood pressure?
- Sleep: The foundation for healthy habits
- Slide show: Sleeping positions that reduce back pain
- Video: What happens during obstructive sleep apnea?
- Why is your teen so tired?
Teens
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