Harvard Medical School special health reports.

Includes bibliographical references.

Arthritis: keeping your joints healthy -- Living well with osteoarthritis: a guide to keeping your joints healthy -- What to do about bunions -- Adult asthma -- A guide to Alzheimer's disease -- A guide to coping with Alzheimer’s disease -- Overcoming addiction -- Overcoming addiction: paths toward recovery -- The aging eye: preventing and treating eye disease -- What to do about allergies -- Understanding and controlling your allergies -- Controlling your allergies: how to gain the upper hand over asthma, hay fever, food allergies, and other allergic conditions -- Coping with anxiety and phobias -- Coping with anxiety and stress disorders -- Strength and power training for all ages -- Alcohol use and abuse -- Stroke: diagnosing, treating, and recovering from a "brain attack" -- Stroke: preventing and treating "brain attack" -- Better balance: easy exercises to improve stability and prevent falls -- Better balance -- Better bladder and bowel control -- Boosting your energy: how to jump-start your natural energy and fight fatigue -- Boosting your energy -- Coronary artery bypass surgery -- Chronic constipation -- Core exercises: 6 workouts to tighten your abs, strengthen your back, and improve balance -- Core exercises: 5 workouts to tighten your abs, strengthen your back, and improve your balance -- Cold and flu survival guide -- Caregiver's handbook: a guide to caring for the ill, elderly, or disabled-and yourself -- A guide to cognitive fitness --

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: treating emphysema and chronic bronchitis -- Diabetes: a plan for living -- Diabetes: a plan for healthy living -- Diagnosis coronary artery disease -- Diseases of the heart: a compendium of common heart conditions and the latest treatments -- Dental health for adults: a guide to protecting your teeth and gums -- Diagnosis heart failure -- Get healthy, get a dog: the health benefits of canine companionship -- Starting to exercise -- Exercise: a program you can live with -- Erectile dysfunction -- What to do about erectile dysfunction -- Food allergy, intolerance, and sensitivity: are the foods you eat making you ill? -- Healthy feet: preventing and treating common foot problems -- Foot care basics: preventing and treating common foot conditions -- Gentle core exercises: start toning your abs, building your back muscles, and reclaiming core fitness today -- Gentle core exercises -- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) -- Coping with grief and loss: a guide to healing when mourning the death of a loved one -- Coping with grief and loss: a guide to healing -- Grief and loss -- Headaches: relieving and preventing migraine and other headaches -- Managing your cholesterol -- What to do about high cholesterol -- Healthy eating: a guide to the new nutrition -- Healthy eating for type 2 diabetes -- Healthy eating for a healthy heart -- Living with heart failure -- Heart disease: a guide to preventing and treating coronary artery disease --

Hearing loss: a guide to prevention and treatment -- Healthy hands: strategies for strong, pain free hands -- Health associations and medical organizations -- Controlling your blood pressure:what to do when your doctor says you have hypertension -- Hypertension: Controlling the "silent killer" -- Improving memory: understanding age-related memory loss -- Insomnia -- Improving sleep: a guide to a good night's rest -- The joint pain relief workout: healing exercises for your shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles -- Knees and hips: a troubleshooting guide to knee and hip pain -- Life after cancer -- Living better, living longer: the secrets of healthy aging -- Low back pain: healing your aching back -- Back pain: finding solutions for your aching back -- Back pain -- Living wills: a guide to advance directives, the health care power of attorney, and other key documents -- Advance care planning: a guide to advance directives, living wills, and other strategies for communicating health care preferences -- The health care power of attorney and living will: protect your right to make crucial health care decisions -- A guide to men's health fifty and forward -- Mobility and independence -- Neck pain: a troubleshooting guide to help you find relief -- Neck pain: a troubleshooting guide to help you relieve your pain, restore function, and prevent reinjury -- Neck and shoulder pain -- Osteoporosis: a guide to prevention and treatment -- 2011 annual report on prostate diseases --

2013 annual report on prostate diseases -- 2015 annual report on prostate diseases -- 2016 annual report on prostate diseases: covering advances in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, erectile dysfunction, prostatitis, and related conditions -- 2017 annual report on prostate diseases: covering advances in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, erectile dysfunction, prostatitis, and related conditions -- 2012 annual report on prostate diseases -- 2014 annual report on prostate diseases -- Positive psychology: harnessing the power of happiness, mindfulness, and inner strength -- Pain relief without drugs or surgery -- Pain relief: natural and alternative remedies without drugs or surgery -- Restless legs syndrome -- Reducing sugar and salt: strategies for minimizing risks to your health -- A plan for successful aging -- Living better, living longer -- Stress management: approaches for preventing and reducing stress -- Stress management: enhance your well-being by reducing stress and building resilience -- Simple changes, big rewards -- Simple changes, big rewards: a practical, easy guide for healthy, happy living -- Skin care and repair -- Skin care and repair: options for preventing and treating skin damage and common skin conditions -- The sensitive gut: a guide to managing common gastrointestinal disorders -- The sensitive gut -- Sexuality in midlife and beyond -- Sinusitis -- Smoking cessation --

How to quit smoking: a guide -- Strength and power training: a guide for older adults -- STDs -- The Harvard Medical School 6-week plan for healthy eating -- An introduction to Tai Chi -- Thyroid disease: understanding hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism -- Understanding depression -- Understanding depression: the many faces of depression - and how to find relief -- Viruses and disease: protecting yourself from the invisible enemy -- The truth about vitamins and minerals: choosing the nutrients you need to stay healthy -- Making sense of vitamins and minerals: choosing the foods and nutrients you need to stay healthy -- Healthy solutions to lose weight and keep it off -- Walking for health: Why this simple form of activity could be your best health insurance -- A guide to women's health: fifty and forward -- Lose weight and keep it off -- Workout workbook: 9 complete workouts to help you get fit and healthy -- An Introduction to Yoga: Improve your strength, balance, flexibility, and well-being.

Harvard Medical School Special Health Reports provide thorough insight into common conditions, diseases, and wellness issues. Each report focuses on a specific health concern and provides helpful tips for readers to further understand how to address and improve their health.

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