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Advance Directives

“Advance directives” are legal documents about health care choices.

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Birth Control: Emergency Contraception

This Helping Hand™ is about different forms of emergency contraception and when to use them. Your doctor or health care provider can help you choose the best one.

Molluscum

Molluscum are smooth, pearly, skin-colored, benign bumps on the skin. They begin as small bumps and they may grow as large as a pencil eraser.

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Hand Containment: How Gentle Touch Can Calm Your Baby

Human touch is healing. A warm embrace, a hand to hold and even a gentle touch on the arm can help most of us during times of distress. Holding, and the expression of care and emotional support through touching, are the main ways that infants learn to feel safe and secure.

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Scar Management

Does your child have a scar forming? This Helping Hand can walk you through all of the scar management techniques.

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Warts: Liquid Nitrogen Treatment

What to expect if your child is having a liquid nitrogen treatment to remove a wart.

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Check-ups for Teens in Out-of-Home Placement

Teens in foster or kinship care have unique needs. They are learning life skills like how to make decisions on their own. Teens also have many concerns about their health, relationships with friends, and privacy.

Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

Deep Vein Thrombosis is a blood clot that has formed in a large blood vessel. It may completely or partially block the blood flow in that vein. Symptoms of DVT include pain, swelling and feeling warm. In most cases, a DVT will be treated with an anticoagulation medicine.

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Marijuana

Marijuana (also known as cannabis, weed, or pot) is the leaves, stems, seeds, and dried, crushed flowers of a cannabis plant. There are over 100 chemicals in the cannabis plant called cannabinoids. The most common cannabinoids are THC and CBD.