Health topics
Welcome to the Health Feature Library, powered by MediResourceTM. Health features are mini-collections of informative articles on many interesting health topics.
Each health feature has been written and reviewed by Canadian health care professionals. They can give you helpful health advice to help you manage health conditions or live a healthier lifestyle.
- Breast-feeding: Getting Started
- Managing Breast-feeding Issues
- Give the Gifts of Fitness and Wellness
- Your Treatment: Making a Commitment
- 4 Steps to Post-holiday Rejuvenation
- Getting Involved in Research
- Your Blood Vessels: Healthy for Life
- Time for Spring Cleaning!
- Foot Care: Put Some Spring in Your Step
- Water: What's New?
- Healthy Hair Essentials
- Your 20s: A Health Guide for Women
- Your 30s: A Health Guide for Women
- Not-So-Simple Sleep
- Food Allergy, Food Enemy?
- Living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Male Infertility: Facts and Myths
- Halloween Health and Safety
- Itches, Twitches, Tickles, and Pops
- How to Be Winter Wonderful
- CRP, cholesterol, and heart disease
- PMS: Are You Prepared?
- You, your doctor, and your cholesterol levels
- Summer Skin Hazards
- Online Life: Is It Healthy?
- Sleep Facts and Fiction
- Do-It-Yourself Cold Relief
- Autumn Health
- Breast Health
- Common Ways You Damage Your Teeth
- Your 40s: A Health Guide for Women
- How to Boost Your Immune System
- Winter Weather Well-being
- Working Out in a Winter Wonderland
- Ovulation Induction
- How to Boost Your Memory
- How Food Label Savvy Are You?
- Healthy Skin by the Numbers
- Milk
- Acne: It's Not Just for Teens
- Your 50s: A Health Guide for Women
- School Health and Happiness
- Aging Skin and Wrinkles
- Eczema in Infants and Children
- Your "Bad Cold, Busy Day" Survival Guide
- Keeping Your Mouth Healthy While Travelling
- Caring for Sensitive Teeth
- Oral Care and Your Medical Conditions
- 5 Things You Should Know About MS Treatment
- A couple's guide to fighting MS
- Measuring MS: Disease Markers
- What, Where, Who? Why Some People Get MS and Others Don't
- Types of Incontinence
- Travel Tips
- Treating Psoriasis with Biologics
- 5 Psoriasis Skin Care Tips
- Living Well with Psoriasis
- Psoriasis: Control Your Triggers
- What Is Psoriatic Arthritis?
- Bedwetting Underwear or Training Pants?
- Beat the Flu Before it Beats You
- Telling Your Partner About Incontinence
- 10 Easy Ways to Cut Your Stroke Risk
- Indoor Exercises for Seniors
- Heart Facts: 7 Things You Never Knew
- Work out your heart
- Your Heart and Summer Fun
- Keeping the Beat: Living with AFib
- Recently Diagnosed with AFib?
- More Time for Your Bucket List?
- 5 Ways to Avoid Digestive Problems on the Go
- The 10 Commandments of a Healthy Digestive System
- Dandruff FAQ
- Skin Care in Your 30s and Beyond
- 12 Secrets to Smooth, Supple Skin
- How 4 Facial Treatments Really Work
- You and Your Child - Coping with Vaccine Anxiety
- Top 10 Things You Need to Know About HPV Vaccination
- Genital Warts and HPV
- Trying to Get Pregnant Is Stressing Me Out!
- HPV and Cervical Cancer: One Woman's Story
- HPV Vaccination
- The Great Outdoors
- COVID-19 and Face Masks: What You Need to Know
- Summer Beauty from the Inside Out
- Your Child Has the Flu: Now What?
- When Your Child Has the Flu: How to Help
- Tips for Caregivers: Taking Care of Someone with the Flu
- The Flu and Medical Conditions
- Supporting Frontline Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Maintaining Recovery and Staying Safe While Social Distancing
- Hand Washing Guide
- Hand Hygiene How-to: Protecting Yourself and Others from COVID-19
- Flu Myths: Busted
- Flu Complications: Are You at Risk?
- COVID-19: What to do if you get sick
- COVID-19 Risk Assessment
- COVID-19 - Overview, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
- Children's Flu Risk
- Children and the Flu
- How Flu Antivirals Work
- Should I get a seasonal flu shot?
- Being mindful of your mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Staying Active During COVID-19
- Preparing for Our First COVID-19 Winter Holiday Season
- COVID-19 and the Flu Shot: What You Need to Know
- Diabetes: Managing Your Condition
- Nutritional Supplements
- Sports Injuries
- Travel Health
- Seniors' Health
- Allergy and Asthma
- Headaches
- Pain
- Sun Safety
- Cancer: Coping Tips
- Smoking Cessation
- Arthritis
- Safety Outdoors
- Heart Health
- Medication Management
- Osteoporosis
- Weight Loss
- Eating Disorders
- Eye Health
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Sleep: Getting a Good Night's Worth
- Stroke
- Childhood Obesity
- Peptic Ulcer Disease
- Flu and Cold
- Complementary Medicine
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Stress
- Impaired Glucose Tolerance
- Cancer and Chemotherapy
- Nutrition and Fitness
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Eating for Two – Nutrition During Pregnancy
- Happy Healthy Holidays!
- Keep Your Resolutions
- Nutrition Edition
- Meditation
- The Air We Breathe: Is It Safe?
- Vaccination and Your Child
- Yoga: Stretch for Your Health
- Andropause: A Turning Point for Men
- Wintertime Health and Safety
- Fad vs. Fat: Popular diets
- Keeping a Healthy Smile
- Contraception
- Eyesight Problems and Solutions
- Food and You
- Sex and Aging: Use It or Lose It!
- Prostate Cancer: One Man's Story
- Organ Donation: The Gift of Life
- How to Talk to Your Doctor
- Colorectal Cancer: Cutting the Risks
- Cutting Your Cancer Risk
- Caring for Aging Parents
- Integrative Medicine: the ABCs
- Staying Healthy on Medication
- Are You Ready for an Emergency?
- Healthy Hearing
- Back to School: A Healthy Start
- Keeping Fit
- Crack the Colour Code for Healthy Eating
- Run... for Your Life
- Bodies in Love
- What Puts the ''Super'' in Superfoods?
- Bedroom Makeover: Create a Sleep Sanctuary
- Home Testing Kits
- Menopause
- Active Living
- Psoriasis: Managing and Preventing Flare-Ups
- Drug Allergies
- Living with Psoriasis
- Allergies in Motherhood
- Summertime and Your Health
- Weight Management: Why is it so hard?
- Travel Bugs
- Don't Miss a Dose
- High Blood Pressure: What's New?
- Stopping Heartburn's Acid Sting
- Stop Smoking
- Turning Down the Pressure
- Preparing for a Colonoscopy
- Asthma Control Matters
- Nicotine Craving!
- What If It's Not a Yeast Infection?
- Diarrhea - Did You Know?
- Danny's Story: Breaking Free of RA
- Heart Disease: Lowering Your Risk
Medical Disclaimer
The information in this section is for Canadian audiences only. The contents are for informational purposes only and are meant to be discussed with your physician or other qualified health care professional before being acted on. Never disregard any advice given to you by your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Always seek the advice of a physician or other licensed health care professional regarding any questions you have about your medical condition(s) and treatment(s). This content is not a substitute for medical advice.
