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Smoking is the greatest single danger to the health of your arteries. It puts you at higher risk for peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which affects the arteries in your legs.

Diabetes is a condition where your body has trouble using a sugar (glucose) for energy. As a result, the sugar level in your blood becomes too high. This puts you at high risk for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). This is a disease of arteries in the legs. Read on to learn how diabetes can lead to PAD and affect your health.

Be prepared. Learn what to do if your baby has an object in the airway.

Hearing is vital to your child's development. It affects how your child speaks, learns, and communicates. Here are common speech and hearing milestones for children.

Learn how to do a bent-knee calf stretch to help stretch and strengthen your feet and ankles.

An intrathecal pain pump implant is a way to relieve some kinds of long-term pain or cancer pain. It sends pain medicine through a thin, flexible tube. The tube is inserted into the space around the spinal cord.

This surgery fixes an ovary that has twisted. When such twisting happens, it's called ovarian torsion.

Here are images showing how to change the dressing on a surgical wound or incision.

Here are images showing how to inspect your feet for problems if you have diabetes.