Common Questions

Puberty: Common Questions

The years when the body develops into an adult body, driven by rising sex hormones.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Common Questions

Supervised exercise and education for people with chronic lung disease.

Radon Testing: Common Questions

Testing indoor air for radon, a radioactive gas from soil and rock that you cannot see, smell or taste.

Rate of Weight Loss: Common Questions

How quickly weight can be lost in a way that is safe and likely to be sustained.

Raw Milk: Common Questions

Milk from cows, goats, sheep or other animals that has not been pasteurized, a heat treatment that kills harmful germs.

Reading an Explanation of Benefits: Common Questions

The statement your health plan sends after a claim, showing what the provider charged, what the plan paid and what you may owe.

Reading Recipes Critically: Common Questions

Judging whether a recipe fits the way you actually eat before you cook it.

Reading the Nutrition Facts Label: Common Questions

The standard FDA panel on packaged foods that lists serving size, calories and key nutrients.

Recognizing an Emergency: Common Questions

The symptoms that mean calling 911 rather than waiting.

Recognizing Yourself as a Caregiver: Common Questions

Providing unpaid support to someone who could not manage without it.

Reducing Cancer Risk: Common Questions

The changeable factors linked to lower cancer risk.

Reducing Food Waste: Common Questions

Buying, storing and using food so that less of it is thrown away.

Rehabilitation After a Heart Event: Common Questions

A structured program of exercise, education and support after a heart attack, heart surgery or other cardiac event.

Rehabilitation After Surgery: Common Questions

Regaining strength and function after an operation.

Reporting Side Effects: Common Questions

The FDA MedWatch program, through which anyone can report a suspected reaction.

Resistance Training: Common Questions

Exercise that loads muscle against resistance, whether from weights, bands or body weight.

Returning to Activity After Illness: Common Questions

Rebuilding capacity after a significant illness or hospital stay.

Returning to Work After Illness: Common Questions

Getting back to work after a period of sick leave.

Returning Traveler Illness: Common Questions

Illness developing during or after travel, and what needs urgent assessment.

RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus): Common Questions

A common respiratory virus that usually causes cold-like symptoms but can cause serious lung infections in babies and older adults.

Running for Beginners: Common Questions

Progressing from walking to continuous running, usually through run-walk intervals.

Safe Disposal of Medicines: Common Questions

How to get rid of unused or expired medicines so they cannot be misused or harm children, pets or the environment.

Safe Firearm Storage: Common Questions

Storing firearms in ways that keep them out of reach of children, teens and anyone at risk of harming themselves or others.

Safe Home Canning: Common Questions

Preserving food in jars at home using tested methods that destroy germs and seal the jar.

Safe Internal Cooking Temperatures: Common Questions

The minimum temperatures, measured with a food thermometer, that meat, poultry, seafood and egg dishes need to reach to kill harmful germs.

Safe Lifting at Work: Common Questions

Lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling loads as part of work.

Safe Sleep for Infants: Common Questions

Ways to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related deaths in babies under 1 year old.

Saturated Fat: Common Questions

The fat found mainly in butter, fatty meat, cheese, cream, coconut oil and palm oil.

Sciatica: Common Questions

Pain radiating down the leg from compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve.

Screen Time and Mood: Common Questions

The relationship between device use, particularly in the evening, and sleep and mood.

Screen Use and Eyes: Common Questions

Digital eye strain: the discomfort, dryness and blurring associated with prolonged screen use.

Sedentary Time: Common Questions

Time spent sitting or reclining while awake, separate from how much you exercise.

Self-Management: Common Questions

The day-to-day decisions a person makes about their own condition.

Sensitive Teeth: Common Questions

Short, sharp pain in response to cold, heat, sweetness or touch, from exposed dentin.

Sepsis: Common Questions

The body's extreme response to an infection, damaging its own tissues and organs.

Setting Rehabilitation Goals: Common Questions

Agreeing what recovery is actually for, in terms of specific activities.

Severe Bleeding: Common Questions

Controlling blood loss that will not stop on its own.

Sexual Function: Common Questions

Difficulties with desire, arousal, pain or orgasm, in any gender.

Sexual Health in Later Life: Common Questions

Sexual activity and risk in older adults, an area routinely left out of both advice and services.

Sexual Health Services: Common Questions

Confidential services providing testing, treatment, contraception and advice.