Consumer health basics
Learning Center
Slide show: Root canal treatment
This dental procedure involves repairing and saving a badly damaged tooth. With dental advances and local anesthetics, most people have little if any pain.
Slide show: Common baby rashes
You might expect your baby's skin to be flawless, but baby rashes and other skin conditions are common. Find out when treatment is needed.
Sleeve gastrectomy
Learn about sleeve gastrectomy, a type of weight-loss surgery that involves removing part of the stomach to make it smaller.
Sleep aids: Understand options sold without a prescription
Get the facts on common sleep aids sold without a prescription, including precautions and side effects.
Sleep aids: Could antihistamines help me sleep?
Antihistamines can be somewhat effective as a sleep aid — but only for occasional sleeplessness.
Shock: First aid
How to recognize, get help for and provide first aid for shock.
Shingles treatment: Does alcohol use affect therapy?
Generally, it's best to avoid alcohol during the course of shingles treatment.
Shingles
Learn more about symptoms, causes, treatment and vaccine prevention of this painful condition affecting the nerves.
Severe bleeding: First aid
How to administer first aid for severe bleeding.
Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)
SNRIs help relieve depression. Some are also used for anxiety disorders or chronic pain, or they may work well for a combination of depression and pain.
Refine Your Search
Type
- All
- Article (142)
- Answer (118)
- TestProcedure (81)
- FirstAid (53)
- Video (39)
- Disease (37)
- HealthTip (5)
- SlideShow (2)
Gender
Age
- All
- 45 to 64 middle
- 19 to 44 younger
- 65 to 80 older
- 80 and over
- 13 to 18 years teen
- 03 to 5 years preschool
- 06 to 12 years elementary/preteen
- 02 months to 2 years infant/toddler
- 00 birth to 01 month newborn
- 29 to 40 middle
- 16 years
Focus
- All
- Clinical Treatment
- Symptom (reportable)
- Prevention
- Causal Risk Factor
- Definition
- Home Treatment
- Risk factor
- Test
- Complication