Harvard Medical School Special Health Reports provide thorough insight into common conditions, diseases, and wellness issues. Each report focuses on a specific health concern and provides helpful tips for readers to further understand how to address and improve their health.

Table of Contents

• Arthritis: Keeping your joints healthy
• Living Well with Osteoarthritis: A guide to keeping your joints healthy
• What to do about bunions
• Adult Asthma
• A Guide to Alzheimer's Disease
• A guide to coping with Alzheimer's Disease
• Overcoming Addiction
• Overcoming Addiction: Paths toward recovery
• The Aging Eye: Preventing and treating eye disease
• What to do about Allergies
• Understanding and Controlling Your Allergies
• Controlling Your Allergies: How to gain the upper hand over asthma, hay fever, food allergies, and other allergic conditions
• Coping with Anxiety and Phobias
• Coping with Anxiety and Stress Disorders
• Strength and Power Training for All Ages
• Alcohol Use and Abuse
• Stroke: Diagnosing, treating, and recovering from a “brain attack”
• Stroke: Preventing and treating “brain attack”
• Better Balance: Easy exercises to improve stability and prevent falls
• Better Balance
• Better Bladder and Bowel Control
• Boosting Your Energy: How to jump-start your natural energy and fight fatigue
• Boosting Your Energy
• Coronary artery bypass surgery
• Chronic Constipation
• Core Exercises: 6 workouts to tighten your abs, strengthen your back, and improve balance
• Core Exercises: 5 workouts to tighten your abs, strengthen your back, and improve your balance
• Cold and Flu Survival Guide
• Caregiver's Handbook: A guide to caring for the ill, elderly, or disabled-and yourself
• A Guide to Cognitive Fitness
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Treating emphysema and chronic bronchitis
• Diabetes: A plan for living
• Diabetes: A plan for healthy living
• Diagnosis Coronary Artery Disease
• Diseases of the Heart: A compendium of common heart conditions and the latest treatments
• Dental Health for Adults: A guide to protecting your teeth and gums
• Diagnosis Heart Failure
• Get Healthy, Get a Dog: The health benefits of canine companionship
• Starting to Exercise
• Exercise: A program you can live with
• Erectile Dysfunction
• What to do about Erectile Dysfunction
• Food Allergy, Intolerance, and Sensitivity: Are the foods you eat making you ill?
• Healthy Feet: Preventing and treating common foot problems
• Foot Care Basics: Preventing and treating common foot conditions
• Gentle Core Exercises: Start toning your abs, building your back muscles, and reclaiming core fitness today
• Gentle Core Exercises
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
• Coping with Grief and Loss: A guide to healing when mourning the death of a loved one
• Coping with Grief and Loss: A guide to healing
• Grief and Loss
• Headaches: Relieving and preventing migraine and other headaches
• Managing Your Cholesterol
• What to do about High Cholesterol
• Healthy Eating: A guide to the new nutrition
• Healthy Eating for Type 2 Diabetes
• Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart
• Living with Heart Failure
• Heart Disease: A guide to preventing and treating coronary artery disease
• Hearing Loss: A guide to prevention and treatment
• Healthy Hands: Strategies for Strong, pain free hands
• Health Associations And Medical Organizations
• Controlling Your Blood Pressure:What to do when your doctor says you have hypertension
• Hypertension: Controlling the ‘silent killer’
• Improving Memory: Understanding age-related memory loss
• Insomnia
• Improving Sleep: A guide to a good night's rest
• The Joint Pain Relief Workout: Healing exercises for your shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles
• Knees and Hips: A troubleshooting guide to knee and hip pain
• Life After Cancer
• Living Better, Living Longer: The secrets of healthy aging
• Low Back Pain: Healing your aching back
• Back Pain: Finding solutions for your aching back
• Back Pain
• Living Wills: A guide to advance directives, the health care power of attorney, and other key documents
• Advance Care Planning: A guide to advance directives, living wills, and other strategies for communicating health care preferences
• The Health Care Power of Attorney and Living Will: Protect your right to make crucial health care decisions
• A Guide to Men's Health Fifty and Forward
• Mobility and Independence
• Neck Pain: A troubleshooting guide to help you find relief
• Neck Pain: A troubleshooting guide to help you relieve your pain, restore function, and prevent reinjury
• Neck and Shoulder Pain
• Osteoporosis: A guide to prevention and treatment
• 2011 Annual Report on Prostate Diseases
• 2013 Annual Report on Prostate Diseases
• 2015 Annual Report on Prostate Diseases
• 2016 Annual Report on Prostate Diseases: Covering advances in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, erectile dysfunction, prostatitis, and related conditions
• 2017 Annual Report on Prostate Diseases: Covering advances in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, erectile dysfunction, prostatitis, and related conditions
• 2012 Annual Report on Prostate Diseases
• 2014 Annual Report on Prostate Diseases
• Positive Psychology: Harnessing the power of happiness, mindfulness, and inner strength
• Pain Relief Without Drugs or Surgery
• Pain Relief: Natural and alternative remedies without drugs or surgery
• Restless Legs Syndrome
• Reducing Sugar and Salt: Strategies for minimizing risks to your health
• A Plan for Successful Aging
• Living Better, Living Longer
• Stress Management: Approaches for preventing and reducing stress
• Stress Management: Enhance your well-being by reducing stress and building resilience
• Simple Changes, Big Rewards
• Simple Changes, Big Rewards: A practical, easy guide for healthy, happy living
• Skin Care and Repair
• Skin Care and Repair: Options for preventing and treating skin damage and common skin conditions
• The Sensitive Gut: A guide to managing common gastrointestinal disorders
• The Sensitive Gut
• Sexuality in Midlife and Beyond
• Sinusitis
• Smoking Cessation
• How to Quit Smoking: A Guide
• Strength and Power Training: A guide for older adults
• STDs
• The Harvard Medical School 6-Week Plan for Healthy Eating
• An Introduction to Tai Chi
• Thyroid Disease: Understanding hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism
• Understanding Depression
• Understanding Depression: The many faces of depression — and how to find relief
• Viruses and Disease: Protecting yourself from the invisible enemy
• The Truth about Vitamins and Minerals: Choosing the nutrients you need to stay healthy
• Making Sense of Vitamins and Minerals: Choosing the foods and nutrients you need to stay healthy
• Healthy Solutions to Lose Weight and Keep It Off
• Walking for Health: Why this simple form of activity could be your best health insurance
• A Guide to Women's Health: Fifty and Forward
• Lose Weight and Keep It Off
• Workout Workbook: 9 complete workouts to help you get fit and healthy
• An Introduction to Yoga: Improve your strength, balance, flexibility, and well-being