Common Questions

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Common Questions

A bulge in the main artery running through the abdomen.

Accessing Your Health Records: Common Questions

Your right under HIPAA to see and get a copy of your medical and billing records.

Acetaminophen Dosing Limits: Common Questions

Staying within the limits of one of the most commonly used medicines in the US.

Acetaminophen Safety: Common Questions

Using acetaminophen (Tylenol) within safe limits, and why the margin is narrower than people assume.

Acid Reflux: Common Questions

Stomach contents moving back into the esophagus, causing heartburn and regurgitation.

Acne: Common Questions

Blocked and inflamed hair follicles producing pimples, most commonly on the face, chest and back.

Acute Kidney Injury: Common Questions

A sudden fall in kidney function over hours or days, usually triggered by another illness.

Added Sugar: Common Questions

Sugars and syrups added to foods and drinks during processing or preparation, including table sugar, honey and corn syrup.

Adult Vaccination: Common Questions

The vaccines recommended for adults, by age and by health condition.

Air Pollution and the AQI: Common Questions

Outdoor air pollution such as ozone, fine particles and wildfire smoke, and the Air Quality Index used to report it.

Air Quality: Common Questions

Outdoor and indoor air pollution, and its effect on lung and heart health.

Alcohol and Mental Health: Common Questions

The two-way relationship between drinking and mood, anxiety and sleep.

Alcohol and the Heart: Common Questions

The relationship between drinking and cardiovascular outcomes, and the current US guidance.

Alcohol Reduction: Common Questions

Keeping within the US dietary guidance on alcohol, and cutting down where you are above it.

Alcohol Use Disorder: Common Questions

A medical condition in which a person has trouble controlling or stopping drinking despite harm to their health, work or relationships.

Alcohol-Related Liver Disease: Common Questions

Liver damage caused by sustained alcohol intake, progressing from fatty liver through alcoholic hepatitis to cirrhosis.

Allergens on Food Labels: Common Questions

The US rules that require packaged foods to declare the major food allergens they contain.

Allergy Testing: Common Questions

Skin prick and blood tests used alongside clinical history to identify allergic triggers.

Altitude Sickness: Common Questions

Illness caused by climbing higher faster than the body can adapt to lower oxygen.

Anaphylaxis: Common Questions

A severe, rapid-onset allergic reaction affecting breathing or circulation.

Anaphylaxis: Emergency Response: Common Questions

A severe, rapid-onset allergic reaction affecting breathing or circulation.

Anemia: Common Questions

Too little hemoglobin to carry oxygen efficiently, from many possible causes.

Annual Reviews: Common Questions

The regular scheduled checks for a long-term condition.

Annual Wellness Visit: Common Questions

A yearly Medicare prevention visit to review your health risks and plan screenings, with similar preventive checkups offered by most other health plans.

Antibiotic Stewardship: Common Questions

Using antibiotics only when they will help, and exactly as prescribed.

Antibiotics: Common Questions

Medicines that kill or inhibit bacteria, and do nothing whatever to viruses.

Anticoagulants: Common Questions

Blood thinners: medicines that reduce the blood's ability to clot, used to prevent and treat clots.

Anxiety: Common Questions

Persistent worry or fear out of proportion to the situation, with physical symptoms alongside.

Appetite and Satiety: Common Questions

The signals that make you feel hungry and full, and what changes them.

Asking for a Second Opinion: Common Questions

Asking a different clinician to review your diagnosis or treatment plan.

Assistive Equipment: Common Questions

Aids that make daily activities possible or safer.

Asthma and Allergy: Common Questions

The overlap between allergic disease and asthma control.

Asthma: Common Questions

A long-term condition in which the airways become inflamed and narrow in response to triggers.

Athlete's Foot: Common Questions

A fungal infection of the skin between and under the toes.

Atrial Fibrillation: Common Questions

An irregular and often fast heart rhythm caused by disorganized electrical activity in the atria.

Back Pain at Work: Common Questions

Managing back pain while staying in or returning to work.

Back Pain in Older Adults: Common Questions

Back pain arising later in life, where the range of possible causes is wider.

Back Pain: Common Questions

Pain in the lower back, most often without an identifiable structural cause.

Bad Breath: Common Questions

Halitosis, usually caused by bacteria on the tongue and between the teeth.

Batch Cooking: Common Questions

Cooking components in quantity and recombining them into different meals through the week.