Take your pain medicine as prescribed to keep pain under control.

After knee replacement surgery, it's important to use pain medicine as directed to get back to an active life as soon as possible.

Treatment for a tumor may change the way you speak, chew, or eat. If so, your healthcare team will show you new ways to do these important tasks. Family, friends, and other people you trust can also help you adjust.

It's important to cut through alcoholism myths and learn the facts.

Learn how cholesterol affects your health and how lifestyle changes and medicines can help improve your cholesterol levels.

Your surgeon will use monitored anesthesia care (MAC) during your upcoming surgery. This sheet tells you more about this type of anesthesia.

A peak flow meter for asthma is like a thermometer for a fever - it helps you keep track of what's going on inside your lungs by measuring airflow out of the lungs.

Learn about the symptoms, treatment, and prevention of meningitis.

Are you scheduled for surgery? If so, you may worry about the need to replace blood lost during surgery. The goal is to keep the body's normal levels of blood. Blood transfusion is a way to reach this goal.

There are 2 main types of breast pain. The most common type is linked to the menstrual cycle and is almost always hormonal.

A Chiari II malformation is present at birth. With this condition, two parts of the brain at the back of the skull bulge through a normal opening in the skull where it joins the spinal canal.

You don't have to eat a special diet just because you've had a colostomy. Most foods, chewed well and eaten slowly, won't give you problems--unless they did before. But you may need to be more aware of foods that cause gas or odor and foods that make your stool too runny or too hard.

Coping with Meniere's disease is not easy. Learn as much as you can about how to deal with attacks and how to help yourself between attacks.

Take care of your body and your emotions. Also, talk to your friends and family. The more they know about Meniere's disease, the easier it will be for them to understand what you're going through and to offer help when they can.

Kids can get cuts and wounds in their mouth and on their lips when they are playing or doing sports. Learn how to use first aid for these injuries, and when to get medical care.

Diabetes makes it harder for the body to heal. Even minor problems, like a blister, can become infected. If not treated, infections can spread and damage nearby tissues. Prompt treatment by your healthcare provider can help clear up infections and restore your health.

You have a tumor in your mouth or throat. A tumor is a mass of abnormal cells. To learn more about your tumor, your healthcare provider will evaluate you. This may include a health history, physical exam, and some tests. Here's what to expect.

Malignant hypertension is a medical emergency. It means you have dangerously high blood pressure that could result in organ damage.

You are being treated for breast cancer or precancer. The cancer or precancerous tissue was removed with surgery. This may have been done with a lumpectomy. Or it may have been with a total mastectomy. Here is information that includes allowed activities and home care.

Here’s what you need to know about home care after a mastoidectomy. This is the surgical removal of the mastoid bone, a bone you can feel behind the ear.