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Top of the page- Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Hib) Vaccine - Medication
- Hair Analysis - Medical Test
- Hair Loss
- Hair Loss From Cancer Treatment
- Hair Loss: Should I Take Medicine to Regrow Hair?
- Hair Transplant Surgery
- Hairy Cell Leukemia Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI]
- Hairy Cell Leukemia Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]
- Hammer, Claw, and Mallet Toes
- Hammer, Claw, or Mallet Toe: Should I Have Surgery?
- Hamstring Muscles
- Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease
- Handling Sadness and Yearning After a Major Loss
- Hands-Only CPR (video)
- Handwashing
- Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)
- Harmful Noise Levels
- Hay Fever and Other Seasonal Allergies
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Top of the page- Head Injuries in Children: Problems to Watch For
- Head Injury, Age 3 and Younger
- Head Injury, Age 4 and Older
- Head Lice
- Headache Clinics
- Headache Diary
- Headache Prevention: Posture and Body Mechanics
- Headaches
- Headaches
- Headaches: Avoiding Triggers (video)
- Headaches: Finding and Avoiding Triggers
- Headaches in Children
- Headaches: Keeping a Diary (video)
- Headaches: Managing a Headache
- Headaches: Should I Have Imaging Tests to Find Out What's Causing My Headaches?
- Headaches: Should I Take Medicine to Prevent Migraines?
- Headaches: Should I Take Prescription Medicine for Tension Headaches?
- Healing Through Humour
- Healing Touch
- Health and Safety, Ages 2 to 5 Years
- Health and Safety, Birth to 2 Years
- Health Canada and FDA Advisories for Antidepressants
- 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 Screenings: Should I Buy Commercial Tests?
- Health Tracking Forms and Checklists
- Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia (Nosocomial Pneumonia)
- Healthwise Self-Care Checklist
- Healthwise Symptom Checker
- Healthy Aging
- Healthy Aging: Is It Time to Stop Driving?
- Healthy Attitudes Toward Food and Exercise
- Healthy Diet Guidelines for a Healthy Heart
- Healthy Eating
- Healthy Eating
- Healthy Eating and Older Adults
- 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 Canadians
- Healthy Eating for Children
- Healthy Eating: Getting Back on Track (video)
- 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: Resisting Temptation in Social Situations (video)
- Healthy Eating: Starting a Plan for Change
- Healthy Eating: Staying With Your Plan
- Healthy Eating: Taking Calcium and Vitamin D
- Healthy Eating to Decrease Stress
- Healthy Eating: What Will Make It Work for You? (video)
- Healthy Habits for Kids
- Healthy Habits to Prevent or Reduce Problems From Osteoporosis
- Healthy Muscles
- Healthy Weight: Find Your Inspiration (video)
- Healthy Weight: Make Your Plan (video)
- Healthy Weight: What Works (video)
- Healthy Weight: When Success Slows Down (video)
- Hearing Aids
- Hearing Loss
- Hearing Loss: Should I Get Hearing Aids?
- Hearing Protectors
- Hearing Tests - Medical Test
- Heart and Circulation
- Heart Arrhythmias and Exercise
- Heart Attack and Stroke in Women: Reducing Your Risk
- Heart Attack and Stroke Risk Screening
- Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
- Heart Attack: How to Prevent Another One
- Heart Block
- Heart Catheterization for Congenital Heart Defects in Children - Medical Test
- Heart Failure
- Heart Failure: Activity and Exercise
- Heart Failure and Sexual Activity
- Heart Failure: Avoiding Colds and Flu
- Heart Failure: Avoiding Medicines That Make Symptoms Worse
- Heart Failure: Avoiding Triggers for Sudden Heart Failure
- Heart Failure: Being Active (video)
- Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight
- Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight Daily (video)
- Heart Failure: Compensation by the Heart and Body
- Heart Failure Complications
- Heart Failure Daily Action Plan
- Heart Failure: Daily Symptom Checks (video)
- Heart Failure: Eating a Healthy Diet
- Heart Failure: How Support Can Help (video)
- Heart Failure: Learn to Recognize Symptoms (video)
- Heart Failure: Less Common Symptoms
- Heart Failure: Limiting Fluids (video)
- Heart Failure: Limiting Sodium (video)
- Heart Failure: Medicines to Avoid (video)
- Heart Failure: Practice Tracking Sodium (video)
- Heart Failure: Self-Care (video)
- Heart Failure: Should I Get a Pacemaker (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)?
- Heart Failure: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)?
- Heart Failure: Small Steps to Self-Care (video)
- Heart Failure Stages
- Heart Failure: Support After Your Hospital Stay (video)
- Heart Failure: Symptom Record
- Heart Failure Symptoms
- Heart Failure: Taking an ACE inhibitor or ARB (video)
- Heart Failure: Taking Medicines Properly
- Heart Failure: Taking Over-the-Counter Medicines Safely (video)
- Heart Failure: Tips for Caregivers
- Heart Failure: Tips for Easier Breathing
- Heart Failure: Track Your Symptoms (video)
- Heart Failure: Track Your Weight, Food, and Sodium
- Heart Failure Types
- Heart Failure: Watching Your Fluids
- Heart Failure: When to Act on Your Symptoms (video)
- Heart Failure: When to Call for Help (video)
- Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (Diastolic Heart Failure)
- Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (Systolic Heart Failure)
- Heart Failure: Your Reason to Be Active (video)
- Heart Health: Finding Support for Healthy Changes (video)
- Heart Health: Walking for a Healthy Heart
- Heart Health: Where Will You Be in 5 Years? (video)
- 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
- Heart Valve Problems: Should I Choose a Mechanical Valve or Tissue Valve to Replace My Heart Valve?
- Heart Valve Repair or Replacement: Before Your Surgery (video)
- Heartburn
- Heartburn: Changing Your Eating Habits
- Heartburn Symptom Record
- Heart-Healthy Diet (video)
- Heart-Healthy Eating
- Heart-Healthy Eating: Fish
- Heart-Healthy Lifestyle
- Heat After an Injury
- Heat and Cold Treatment for Cancer Pain
- Heat or Ice for Low Back Pain (video)
- Heat Rash
- Heat Waves
- Heat-Related Illnesses
- Heatstroke: Emergency Symptoms
- Heatstroke Prevention: Acclimating to the Heat
- Heatstroke Prevention: What to Wear
- Heavy Menstrual Periods
- Heavy Sweating
- Heel Bursitis or Tendon Injury: Preventing Pain
- Heimlich Manoeuvre for Adults and Children Older Than 1 Year
- Helicobacter Pylori Bacteria
- Helicobacter Pylori Tests - Medical Test
- HELLP Syndrome and Pre-Eclampsia
- 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 Loved One After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
- 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 Deal With Asthma (video)
- Helping Your Child Prevent and Manage Seizures (video)
- 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
- Hemochromatosis
- Hemochromatosis Gene Test (HFE Test) - Medical Test
- Hemochromatosis Genetic Screening
- Hemodialysis
- Hemodialysis Access: When Is the Right Time? (video)
- Hemoglobin Electrophoresis - Medical Test
- Hemophilia
- Hemophilia: Preventing Bleeding Episodes
- Hemorrhagic Stroke
- Hemorrhoidectomy: Before Your Surgery (video)
- Hemorrhoidectomy for Hemorrhoids
- Hemorrhoidectomy: Returning Home (video)
- Hemorrhoids
- Hemorrhoids: Which Treatment Should I Use?
- Henna Tattoos (Mehndi)
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis A Virus Test - Medical Test
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B and C: Risk of Liver Cancer
- Hepatitis B: How to Avoid Spreading the Virus
- Hepatitis B: Post-Vaccination Test for Immunity
- Hepatitis B: Should I Be Tested?
- Hepatitis B: Should I Take Antiviral Medicine for Chronic Hepatitis B?
- Hepatitis B Treatment Recommendations
- Hepatitis B Vaccine - Medication
- Hepatitis B Virus Tests - Medical Test
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis C Virus Tests - Medical Test
- Hepatitis C: Your Risk for Cirrhosis
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatitis E
- Hepatitis Panel
- Hereditary Syndromes Associated With Kidney Cancer (Renal Cell Cancer) (PDQ®): Genetics - Patient Information [NCI]
- Here's Help: How to Apply a Topical Cream for Your Child (video)
- Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Eardrops (video)
- Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Eyedrops or Eye Ointment (video)
- Here's Help: How to Give Your Child Oral Medicine (video)
- Here's Help: How to Give Yourself Eyedrops or Eye Ointment (video)
- Here's Help: How to Insert Your Child's Suppository (video)
- Here's Help: How to Use Nasal Spray or Drops for Your Child (video)
- Here's Help: Mild Dehydration in Your Baby or Child (video)
- Here's Help: Mild Head Injury (Bump, Cut, or Scrape) in Children (video)
- Here's Help: Mild Heat Exhaustion in Children (video)
- Here's Help: Mild Sunburn in Children (video)
- Here's Help: Minor Burn in Children (video)
- Here's Help: When Your Newborn Is Sick (video)
- Herniated Disc Surgery: How Others Decided (video)
- Heroin
- Herpes Tests - Medical Test
- Herpes-Zoster Vaccine for Shingles - Medication
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Top of the page- Hiatal Hernia
- Hiccups
- Hidden Gluten
- Hidradenitis Suppurativa
- High and Low Blood Sugar Level Record for a Child
- High Blood Pressure
- High Blood Pressure
- High Blood Pressure: Checking Your Blood Pressure at Home
- High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy (video)
- High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy
- High Blood Pressure in Children
- High Blood Pressure: Make the Most of Home Monitoring (video)
- 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: The DASH Diet (video)
- High Blood Pressure: Using the DASH Diet
- High Blood Sugar Level Record
- High Cholesterol
- High Cholesterol: How a Dietitian Can Help
- High Cholesterol: Making Lifestyle Changes
- High Triglycerides
- High-Dose Vitamin C (PDQ®): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Health Professional Information [NCI]
- High-Dose Vitamin C (PDQ®): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Patient Information [NCI]
- High-Output Heart Failure
- High-Potassium Foods
- High-Pressure Injection Wounds
- High-Protein Foods for Wound Healing
- High-Risk Pregnancy
- High-Risk Sexual Behaviour
- High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein - Medical Test
- Hip Bursitis or Tendon Injury: Preventing Pain
- Hip Fracture
- Hip Fracture Repair (Hip Pinning)
- Hip Fracture Surgery (video)
- Hip Fractures: What Increases Your Risk
- Hip Injuries, Age 11 and Younger
- Hip Injuries, Age 12 and Older
- Hip Problems, Age 11 and Younger
- Hip Problems, Age 12 and Older
- Hip Repair Surgery: Returning Home (video)
- Hip Replacement Surgery (video)
- Hip Replacement Surgery: How Others Decided (video)
- Hip Replacement Surgery: Returning Home (video)
- Hip Replacement: When Can You Be Active Again? (video)
- Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty
- Hirschsprung's Disease
- HIV and Exercise
- HIV and Fatigue
- HIV and Pregnancy
- HIV and Weight Loss
- HIV: Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
- HIV: Giving Support
- HIV Home Care
- HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) Infection
- HIV Infection in Health Professionals
- HIV: Non-Progressors and HIV-Resistant People
- HIV: Preventing Infections
- HIV: Preventing Other Infections When You Have HIV
- HIV Screening
- HIV: Stages of Infection
- HIV: Taking Antiretroviral Drugs
- HIV Testing: Should I Get Tested for Human Immunodeficiency Virus?
- HIV: Tips for Caregivers to Avoid Infection
- HIV Treatment in Children
- HIV: Understanding the Test (video)
- HIV Viral Load
- HIV Viral Load Measurement - Medical Test
- HIV: Why Healthy Eating Matters
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Top of the page- Hoarding Disorder
- Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Home Blood Glucose Test - Medical Test
- Home Blood Pressure Log
- Home Blood Pressure Test - Medical Test
- Home Blood Sugar Diary
- Home Ear Examination - Medical Test
- Home Health Care: What to Expect (video)
- Home Lung Function Test - Medical Test
- Home Pregnancy Tests - Medical Test
- Home Remedies for Bites and Stings
- Home Test for Protein in Urine
- Home Treatment First Aid for Cold Exposure
- Home Treatment for Herniated Disc Pain (video)
- Home Treatment for Second-Degree Burns
- Homeopathy
- Homocysteine - Medical Test
- Homocystinuria
- Hormonal Birth Control: Risk of Blood Clots
- Hormone Inhibin A - Medical Test
- Hormone Therapy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (video)
- Hormone Therapy for Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding, Deciding About
- Hormone Therapy for Endometriosis, Deciding About
- Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer (Androgen Deprivation Therapy, or ADT)
- Hormone Treatment for Breast Cancer
- Hormones
- Hospice Palliative Care
- Hospital Discharge Planning
- Hospital Isolation Rooms (video)
- Hospital Isolation Rooms
- Hospital Patient Advocates
- Hospital Policies and Breastfeeding
- Hot and Cold Therapy for Arthritis (video)
- Hot Flashes and Menopause
- Hot Flashes and Night Sweats (PDQ®): Supportive care - Health Professional Information [NCI]
- Hot Flashes and Night Sweats (PDQ®): Supportive care - Patient Information [NCI]
- How a Heart Attack Happens (video)
- How a Scrape Heals
- How ADHD Affects Your Child
- How Adolescent Thinking Develops
- How and When to Give Naloxone (video)
- How Asthma Develops in Children
- How Birth Control Methods Prevent Pregnancy
- How Diabetes Causes Blindness
- How Diabetes Causes Foot Problems
- How Do You Cope With Stress?
- How Hospitals and Clinics Keep You Safe During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- How Others Manage Diabetes (video)
- How Plaque Increases the Risk of a Heart Attack (video)
- How Pregnancy (Conception) Occurs
- How Reading Helps Language Development
- How Secondhand Smoke Affects Your Child (video)
- How the Heart Works
- How to Calm a Crying Baby (video)
- How to Do a Hamstring Stretch While Sitting (video)
- How to Do Ankle Pumps (video)
- How to Do Calf Stretches While Sitting (video)
- How to Do Chair Push-Ups (video)
- How to Do Curl-Ups (video)
- How to Do Glute Sets (video)
- How to Do Heel Raises (video)
- How to Do Heel Slides (video)
- How to Do Quad Sets (video)
- How to Do Short-Arc (Terminal) Knee Extensions While Standing (video)
- How to Do Stationary Biking for Knee Rehab (video)
- How to Do Step-Up and Step-Down Exercises (video)
- How to Do Straight-Leg Raises (video)
- How to Do the Bird Dog Exercise (video)
- How to Do the Bridging Exercise (video)
- How to Do the Hamstring Stretch in a Doorway (video)
- How to Do the Hip Abduction Exercise (video)
- How to Do the Hip Flexor Stretch (video)
- How to Do the Knee Flexion Stretch While Sitting (video)
- How to Do the Long-Arc Quad Exercise (video)
- How to Do the Passive Knee Stretch (video)
- How to Do the Pelvic Tilt Exercise (video)
- How to Do the Press-Up Exercise (video)
- How to Do the Short-Arc Quad Exercise (video)
- How to Do the Single Knee-to-Chest Exercise (video)
- How to Do the Single-Leg Balance Exercise (video)
- How to Do the Wall Sit Exercise (video)
- How to Drain Blood From Under a Nail (video)
- How to Eat Healthy When You're Home All The Time
- How to Find Sodium
- How to Get Moving While in the Hospital (video)
- How to Get Rid of Medicines
- How to Get Up Safely After a Fall
- How to Give a Glucagon Shot (video)
- How to Give a Subcutaneous Injection (video)
- How to Give an Epinephrine Shot to a Child (video)
- How to Give an Intramuscular Injection (video)
- How to Give Yourself an Anticoagulant (Blood Thinner) Shot (video)
- How to Give Yourself an Epinephrine Shot (video)
- How to Help Someone During a Seizure (video)
- How to Help Your Child Prevent a Fall in the Hospital (video)
- How to Prevent a Second Heart Attack (video)
- How to Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome (video)
- How to Put on Compression Stockings (video)
- How to Stay Connected When You're Apart
- How to Stop a Nosebleed (video)
- How to Stop Bleeding From a Head Wound
- How to Stop Negative Thoughts (video)
- How to Swaddle Safely (video)
- How to Take Birth Control Pills
- How to Teach Your Child by Example
- How to Track Your Stress
- How to Transport a Piece of Tongue
- How to Use a Nebulizer With a Mask (video)
- How to Use an Incentive Spirometer (video)
- How to Wear a Sling (video)
- How to Wrap a Sprained Ankle (video)
- How You Can Help Manage Your Child's Pain in the Hospital (video)
- How You Can Help Older Adults Stay Connected
- How Your Mind and Body React to Stress (video)
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Top of the page- Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) - Medical Test
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Test - Medical Test
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test - Medical Test
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine - Medication
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine, Deciding About
- Humour Therapy
- Hunger, Fullness, and Appetite Signals
- Huntington's Disease Genetic Test
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Top of the page- Hydrazine Sulfate (PDQ®): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Health Professional Information [NCI]
- Hydrazine Sulfate (PDQ®): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Patient Information [NCI]
- Hydrocele
- Hydrocortisone for Itching
- Hydrotherapy
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypertensive Emergency
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism: Graves' Ophthalmopathy
- Hyperthyroidism: Should I Use Antithyroid Medicine or Radioactive Iodine?
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Risk of Sudden Death
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Types
- Hyperventilation
- Hypnosis
- Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar) in People Without Diabetes
- Hypopharyngeal Cancer Treatment (Adult) (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI]
- Hypopharyngeal Cancer Treatment (Adult) (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]
- Hypospadias
- Hypothermia and Cold Temperature Exposure
- Hypothyroidism
- Hysterectomy (video)
- Hysterectomy
- Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy: Should I Use Estrogen Therapy (ET)?
- Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy to Treat Endometriosis, Deciding About
- Hysterectomy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: How Others Decided (video)
- Hysterectomy for Endometrial Cancer
- Hysterectomy for Ovarian Cancer
- Hysterectomy: Returning Home (video)
- Hysterectomy: Should I Also Have My Ovaries Removed?
- Hysterosalpingogram - Medical Test
- Hysteroscopy - Medical Test