Chronic Health Conditions
Navigate the complexities of managing a chronic health condition with confidence. These tailored resources offer insights, tools, and support for anyone managing a long-term health condition.
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Symptoms
Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is pain that lasts for more than three months. Learn more about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments.
Management
Learning to Live With Heart Disease
Millions of people diagnosed with heart disease enjoy active, satisfying lives. Instead of looking at their diagnoses as sentences to be invalids, they have used them as catalysts to make positive changes in their lives.
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Asthma
Asthma is a chronic lung condition in which airways become inflamed when triggered, and requires ongoing management.
View ArticlesArthritis
Whether rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis, the symptoms of arthritis are chronic and require ongoing maintenance and treatment.
View articlesImmune Conditions
Many immune system disorders have no known cure, and are therefore managed as chronic health conditions by healthcare specialists.
View articlesDigestive disorders
Chronic disorders in the gastrointestinal (GI) system can affect the esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
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Understanding Healthcare
Illness and Job Discrimination
The two major laws that exist to make sure that anyone with a disability or anyone dealing with a health crisis is not discriminated against are the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Traveling with a Chronic Condition
See your doctor as early as possible before you leave on your trip. Discuss any risks that may be involved and plan for immunizations, medicine, and medical devices you may need while you're away.
Psychological Complications of Chronic Illness
Adolescence is a stressful time of life even for physically healthy teens. Chronic illness further complicates adolescent development. Read on to learn more.
Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
If you have diabetes, you are twice as likely to have high blood pressure. Left untreated, high blood pressure can raise your risk for heart disease and other serious health problems.
Strategies for success
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Healthy Living
The Physical Power of Social Support
Certain behaviors may help safeguard you from illness and disease. These include exercising regularly and sleeping enough. Here may be another--staying socially connected. It may well do your body good.
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Understanding Healthcare
How to Take Part in Every Medical Decision
Well-informed people who play a significant role in deciding how they're going to treat their health conditions are likely to feel better about the decision process. Here are tips to get you started.
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Understanding Healthcare
Maintaining Your Personal Health Record
A personal health record can help reduce or eliminate duplicate tests and allow you to get faster, safer treatment and care in an emergency. It also can help you play a more active role in your health care. Read on to learn more about creating one.
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Healthy Living
How to Be an Active Patient
People who are actively involved in their medical care stay healthier, recover more quickly when they're ill, and live longer, healthier lives.
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Understanding Healthcare
Be Smart About Taking Medicines
Many prescription medicines are being marketed directly to the public through ads on television and in magazines. It's important to get the facts so that you can be safe whenever you take a medicine.
Test your knowledge
Choosing and Using Supplements
Many Americans take vitamins, minerals, or other dietary supplements every day without knowing enough to ensure optimum results.
Do You Know Enough About Taking Prescription Medicines?
Learn how to better manage your medicines by taking this quiz.
Doctor-Patient Communication Quiz
Your doctor can't give you the best care if you don't say what's really going on. This true-false quiz will help you prepare for your next visit.
