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Medicines can help you feel better and stay as healthy as you can. Take your medicines exactly as instructed. Never stop taking medicines or change dosage unless told to by your doctor, even if you feel better. Here are some capsule definitions of medicines that might be prescribed.

After knee replacement, your healthcare team will help you learn how to sit up, stand, and use the bathroom safely.

For most people, medicines can control partial seizures. But there are many kinds of partial seizures, so it may take some time to find the best medicines for you. Your doctor may try several kinds of medicines at varying doses before finding what works best for you.

You may have a problem you can't handle on your own, such as trouble with your marriage, a child, or drugs. Or you may be feeling anxious or depressed. In most cases, psychotherapy can help you cope with these and other issues.

Cancer that has spread beyond the prostate can often be treated. Hormone therapy can slow the growth and spread of the cancer. Chemotherapy may help relieve symptoms and control the cancer. Cancer pain can be managed with medicines.

Treatment can often keep prostate cancer under control. Your care team will advise a treatment plan for you. Learn more about how this is done.

Radical prostatectomy is surgery to remove the entire prostate. It may be done if tests show that the cancer is only in the prostate.

Your yearly checkup should include a clinical breast exam. This exam may be done by a gynecologist, family doctor, nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, or specially trained nurse. Yearly breast exams help to make sure that breast conditions are found early.

You are being treated for breast cancer or precancer. The cancer or precancerous tissue was removed with surgery. This may have been done with a lumpectomy. Or it may have been with a total mastectomy. Here is information that includes allowed activities and home care.