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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

Hair Transplant Surgery

Hairy Cell Leukemia Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI]

Hairy Cell Leukemia Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]

Halcinonide Topical

Halobetasol Topical

Haloperidol

Haloperidol Injection

Hammer, Claw, and Mallet Toes

Hand and Foot Dermatitis

Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Handling Sadness and Yearning After a Major Loss

Hand-Washing

Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome (HCPS)

Harmful Noise Levels

Hay Fever and Other Seasonal Allergies

Head Injury, Age 3 and Younger

Head Injury, Age 4 and Older

Head Lice

Headache Clinics

Headache Prevention: Posture and Body Mechanics

Headaches

Headaches

Headaches: Managing a Headache

Healing Through Humor

Health and Safety, Ages 2 to 5 Years

Health and Safety, Birth to 2 Years

Health Claims on Food Labels

Health Problems Associated With Adult Obesity

Health Risks

Health Risks Related to Smokeless Tobacco

Health Screening: Finding Health Problems Early

Health Tracking Forms and Checklists

Healthwise Self-Care Checklist: Do I Need to Go to the Doctor?

Healthwise Symptom Checker

Healthy Aging: Is It Time to Stop Driving?

Healthy Attitudes Toward Food and Exercise

Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating and Older Adults

Healthy Eating and Stress

Healthy Eating Basics: Building Healthy Meals

Healthy Eating Basics: Cooking

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 for Children

Healthy Eating: Getting Support When Changing Your Eating Habits

Healthy Eating: Helping Your Child Learn Healthy Eating Habits

Healthy Eating in Children: Problems Caused by Poor Nutrition

Healthy Eating in Children: Things That Influence Food Choices

Healthy Eating: Making Healthy Choices When You Eat Out

Healthy Eating: Making Healthy Choices When You Shop

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 Eating: Taking Calcium and Vitamin D

Healthy Habits to Prevent Osteoporosis

Healthy Muscles

Healthy Weight: Thought-Tracking Journal

Hearing Aids

Hearing Loss

Hearing Tests

Heart and Circulation

Heart Arrhythmias and Exercise

Heart Attack

Heart Attack and Stroke Risk Screening

Heart Attack: How to Prevent Another One

Heart Block

Heart Failure

Heart Failure: Activity and Exercise

Heart Failure and Sexual Activity

Heart Failure: Avoiding Medicines That Make Symptoms Worse

Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight

Heart Failure: Compensation by the Heart and Body

Heart Failure Daily Action Plan

Heart Failure: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)?

Heart Failure: Tips for Easier Breathing

Heart Failure: Track Your Weight, Food, and Sodium

Heart Failure: Watching Your Fluids

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (Diastolic Heart Failure)

Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (Systolic Heart Failure)

Heart Health: Walking for a Healthy Heart

Heart Murmur

Heart Rate Problems: Should I Get a Pacemaker?

Heart Rhythm Problems and Driving

Heart Rhythm Problems: Diary of Symptoms

Heart Rhythm Problems: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)?

Heart Rhythm Problems: Symptoms

Heart Tests: When Do You Need Them?

Heart Transplant

Heart Valve Disease

Heartburn

Heartburn: Changing Your Eating Habits

Heartburn During Pregnancy

Heart-Healthy Eating

Heart-Healthy Eating: Fish and Fish Oil

Heart-Healthy Lifestyle

Heat Rash

Heat Waves

Heat-Related Illnesses

Heavy Menstrual Periods

Heavy Sweating

Heel Bursitis or Tendon Injury: Preventing Pain

Heimlich Maneuver for Adults and Children Older Than 1 Year

Helicobacter Pylori Bacteria

Helicobacter Pylori Tests

HELLP Syndrome

Help for Anger Problems

Help Your School-Age Child Develop Social Skills

Help Your Working Teen Balance Responsibilities and Set Priorities

Helping a Family Member Who Has PTSD

Helping a Person During a Seizure

Helping Adolescents Develop More Mature Ways of Thinking

Helping Children During Immunizations

Helping Children With Disabilities Stay Active

Helping Kids Handle Peer Pressure

Helping Someone During a Panic Attack

Helping Your Child Avoid Tobacco, Drugs, and Alcohol

Helping Your Child Build a Healthy Body Image

Helping Your Child Build Inner Strength

Helping Your Child Build Self-Esteem

Helping Your Child Manage Their Emotional Reactions

Helping Your Child Recover After a Traumatic Event

Helping Your Child Transition Into Middle School or Junior High

Helping Your Child Who Is Overweight

Helping Your Newborn Learn

Helping Your School-Age Child Learn About the Body

Helping Your Teen Become a Safe Driver

Helping Your Teen Recover After a Traumatic Event

Hemochromatosis

Hemochromatosis Gene (HFE) Test

Hemochromatosis Genetic Screening

Hemodialysis

Hemoglobin Electrophoresis Test

Hemophilia

Hemophilia: Preventing Bleeding Episodes

Hemorrhagic Stroke

Hemorrhoidectomy

Hemorrhoids

Henna Tattoos (Mehndi)

Heparin Injection

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A Vaccine

Hepatitis A Vaccine: What You Need to Know

Hepatitis A Virus Test

Hepatitis B: How to Avoid Spreading the Virus

Hepatitis B: Postvaccination Test for Immunity

Hepatitis B Vaccine

Hepatitis B Vaccine: What You Need to Know

Hepatitis B Virus Tests

Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C Viral Load Test

Hepatitis C Virus Tests

Hepatitis C: Your Risk for Cirrhosis

Hepatitis D

Hepatitis E

Hepatitis Panel

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]

Heroin

Herpes Tests

Hiatal Hernia

Hiccups

HIDA Scan

Hidden Gluten

Hidradenitis Suppurativa

High Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure: Checking Your Blood Pressure at Home

High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy

High Blood Pressure in Children and Teens

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: 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 Injuries, Age 11 and Younger

Hip Injuries, Age 12 and Older

Hip Problems, Age 11 and Younger

Hip Problems, Age 12 and Older

Hirschsprung Disease

Histrelin Implant

HIV and Exercise

HIV and Fatigue

HIV and Pregnancy

HIV: Nonprogressors and HIV-Resistant People

HIV: Preventing Infections

HIV Screening

HIV Treatment in Children

HIV Viral Load

HIV Viral Load Test

Hoarding Disorder

Hodgkin Lymphoma

Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI]

Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]

Home Blood Pressure Log

Home Blood Pressure Test

Home Blood Sugar Diary

Home Blood Sugar Test

Home Ear Examination

Home Lung Function Test

Home Pregnancy Tests

Home Remedies for Bites and Stings

Home Test for Urinary Tract Infections

Home Treatment First Aid for Cold Exposure

Home Treatment for Second-Degree Burns

Homeopathy

Homocysteine

Homocystinuria

Hormone Inhibin A Test

Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer (Androgen Deprivation Therapy, or ADT)

Hormone Treatment for Breast Cancer

Hormones

Hospice Care

Hospice (PDQ®): Supportive care - Health Professional Information [NCI]

Hospital Discharge Planning

Hospital Isolation Rooms

Hospital Patient Advocates

Hospital Policies and Breastfeeding

Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (Nosocomial Pneumonia)

Hot Flashes and Night Sweats (PDQ®): Supportive care - Health Professional Information [NCI]

Hot Flashes and Night Sweats (PDQ®): Supportive care - Patient Information [NCI]

How ADHD Affects Your Child

How Adolescent Thinking Develops

How Diabetes Causes Blindness

How Diabetes Causes Foot Problems

How Pregnancy (Conception) Occurs

How Reading Helps Language Development

How the Heart Works

How to Build Well-Being

How to Eat Healthy When You're Home All The Time

How to Find Sodium

How to Get Rid of Medicines

How to Get Up Safely After a Fall

How to Teach Your Child by Example

How to Track Your Stress

How You Can Help Older Adults Stay Connected

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]

Hydrocele

Hydrochlorothiazide

Hydrocodone

Hydrocodone Combination Products

Hydrocortisone

Hydrocortisone for Itching

Hydrocortisone Injection

Hydrocortisone Rectal

Hydrocortisone Topical

Hydromorphone

Hydromorphone Injection

Hydromorphone Rectal

Hydrotherapy

Hydroxychloroquine

Hydroxyurea

Hydroxyzine

Hyoscyamine

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Hyperkalemia

Hyperparathyroidism

Hypertensive Emergency

Hyperthyroidism

Hyperthyroidism: Graves' Ophthalmopathy

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Risk of Sudden Death

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Types

Hyperventilation

Hypnosis

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]

Hypospadias

Hypothermia and Cold Temperature Exposure

Hypothyroidism

Hysterectomy

Hysterectomy: Should I Also Have My Ovaries Removed?

Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)

Hysteroscopy