Managing Your Medical Care
Find tips on everything from taking care of your body to choosing the right health care providers.
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How Shots Protect You
Getting the recommended immunizations can help keep you safe.
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Keeping Yourself Healthy
How much sleep do I need?
Why exercise?
How much should I eat?
How many fruits and veggies?
How do I keep stress in check?
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Your How-to Basics
Do you know what to do in a health emergency? If you have a chronic condition, how do you make the shift to an adult doctor? Find out more here.
Talking With Your Doctor
Talking with your doctor and asking questions helps keep you healthy.
Questions to ask
Your Mental Health
Taking care of your mental health can help you feel good.
Finding low-cost mental health care
Going to therapy
Tests & Procedures Videos
Frequently Asked Questions About Medicines
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When you get a prescription, pick a pharmacy and find out if your insurance will pay for the medicine.
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The label on your medicine gives you lots of information, including how many refills you have.
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The best way to get rid of medicine you no longer need is to take it to a medicine disposal program.
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Taking prescription drugs in a way that hasn't been recommended by a doctor can be more dangerous than many people realize.
Body Basics Library
- About the Body Basics Library
- Blood
- Bones, Muscles, and Joints
- Brain and Nervous System
- Digestive System
- Ears
- Endocrine System
- Eyes
- Female Reproductive System
- How Do the Joints Work? (Video)
- Immune System
- Kidneys and Urinary Tract
- Lungs and Respiratory System
- Male Reproductive System
- Metabolism
- Mouth and Teeth
- Skin, Hair, and Nails
- Spleen and Lymphatic System
- Your Heart & Circulatory System