• Automated Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Your doctor might ask you to use an ambulatory blood pressure monitor after measuring your blood pressure in the doctor's office, to make sure that you actually have high blood pressure. This is because your blood pressure can change during the day.
  • What Is Clot-Busting (Thrombolytic) Treatment? Learn how clot-busting medicines are used for emergencies like stroke and heart attack.
  • Child Safety: Air Pollution Children's lungs are especially sensitive to the harmful effects of air pollution. That's because they breathe faster than adults, which causes them to inhale a lot of pollution relative to their weight. Use care when you take your young child...
  • Blood Thinners Other Than Warfarin: Taking Them Safely Actionset Blood thinners are medicines that help prevent blood clots. Because they prevent clots, they also help prevent heart attacks, strokes, and other problems caused by blood clots. But blood thinners can also raise the risk of serious bleeding. So it's...
  • Smoking: Problems With Pregnancy When you're pregnant, everything you put in your body can affect your pregnancy. If you smoke, your fetus is exposed to chemicals such as nicotine and carbon monoxide. If you breathe secondhand smoke during pregnancy, your baby is more likely to have health problems. Smoking during pregnancy increases the chance of...
  • Smoking: Health Risk for Family Members Most people know that smoking is not good for their health. But smoke from your cigarettes ( secondhand smoke) also puts people around you at risk. Because of secondhand smoke, people who spend time with those who smoke have an increased risk of cancer and heart disease. Children of people who smoke are more likely to...
  • Asthma: Educating Yourself and Your Child Educating yourself and your family about asthma is essential for you and your child to manage the condition. If you understand asthma, you will have an easier time following the different aspects of treatment, such as avoiding substances that cause...
  • Helping Your Child Deal With Asthma Learn how to help your child deal with asthma and asthma treatments.
  • Phlebotomy for Too Much Iron Phlebotomy is a procedure that removes blood from the body. Regular phlebotomy treats people who have too much iron in their blood, such as with hemochromatosis, or who are producing too many red blood cells, such as with polycythemia. Removing blood regularly decreases iron levels in the body by reducing the number of...
  • Flu Vaccines: Should I Get a Flu Vaccine? Decision Point Guides you through the decision to get a flu vaccine. Provides info on the flu vaccine. Explains who should and should not get a flu vaccine. Covers benefits and risks. Includes interactive tool to help you make your decision.

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