• Heart Failure: Your Reason to Be Active Find what motivates you to add a little activity to your life and benefit your heart.
  • Heart Failure: Taking Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medicines Learn how to stay safe with prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines when you have heart failure.
  • Heart Failure and Sexual Activity Sex is part of a healthy life and is part of your quality of life. Most people with heart failure can still have an active sex life. You can ask your doctor to help you know if or when it's okay for you to have sex. If you or your partner is worried about having sex, talk with your doctor about your concerns. Your...
  • Heart Failure: Activity and Exercise Actionset Covers how exercise can improve health when you have heart failure. Explains importance of working with your doctor to create a plan for safe exercise. Includes tips for staying safe during activity, staying motivated, and getting support for being active.
  • Heart Failure: Support After Your Hospital Stay Learn about help you'll get to manage your heart failure at home.
  • Heart Failure: Tips for Easier Breathing If you have heart failure, the following tips may help you deal with fluid buildup that makes it hard to breathe. Call your doctor if you have new symptoms or if your symptoms have become worse. Elevate your upper body. Sit in a chair or prop yourself up with pillows. At night, sleep with one or two pillows under your...
  • Heart Failure: Avoiding Medicines That Make Symptoms Worse Actionset Some medicines can affect your heart and make your heart failure worse. Others may keep your heart failure medicines from working right. So it's important to be careful with medicines. These include NSAID pain relievers and medicines that speed up the heart rate. Over-the-counter medicines that you may need to avoid...
  • Carotid Artery Disease What is carotid artery disease? A carotid artery on each side of the neck supplies blood to the brain. Carotid artery disease occurs when a substance called plaque builds up in either or both arteries. The buildup may narrow the artery and limit blood flow to the brain. If this plaque breaks open, it may form a blood...
  • Complications of Paget's Disease Paget's disease can cause complications such as: Osteoarthritis. Paget's disease can damage the bone around a joint. This can cause the cartilage in the joint to weaken and break down, which leads to arthritis. Many people feel bone or joint pain...
  • Kawasaki Disease Kawasaki disease is a rare childhood illness that affects the blood vessels. The symptoms can be severe for several days. But with treatment, most children return to normal activities. Kawasaki disease can harm the coronary arteries, which carry...

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