If you feel down most days or are having problems with appetite or sleep, you may have depression. Depression is as real and serious an illness as heart failure. But depression is treatable.

Know what puts you at risk for heart disease. Learn what changes can help control your risk. Then start with one change that you think might be easiest for you.

With an ectopic pregnancy, the growing egg in the fallopian tube can cause the tube to burst (rupture). This can lead to severe bleeding if it is not found early and treated.

Metabolic syndrome is a diagnosis made when you have 3 or more risk factors from a set of 5. But you can take action to control these factors.

Chemotherapy medicines can be harmful if they touch skin. So you need to make sure caregivers and others close to you are not exposed to body fluids during a treatment and for up to 48 hours afterward.

When you are facing cancer treatment, you may have questions about how cancer care may harm your ability to have children. If you are thinking about having a child at some point, you can take steps to protect your reproductive health.

When you are facing cancer treatment, you may have questions about how cancer care may harm your ability to have children. Learn how you can take steps to protect your reproductive health.

Don’t keep medicines around your home that you no longer use. Instead get rid of them safely.

When healthcare providers are trying to diagnose a nerve problem, they find it useful to think of what nerve or part of the spinal cord may be involved in the problem. If your leg doesn't work as it should, for instance, your healthcare provider may look at the nerve or nerves that send nerve information from your leg. On the other hand, the healthcare provider might decide your leg problem is linked to a certain part of your spinal cord. When that's the case, the area affected may involve a dermatome--a spinal nerve tied to that area of your leg.

One of the changes that can happen after a traumatic brain injury is depression. Read on to learn about symptoms and treatment.