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Sickle cell anemia runs in families and often affects African Americans. Here are tips for treatment and home care for your child.

You have had surgery to repair an abdominal aortic aneurysm. This happens when the main blood vessel in your abdominal area weakens and expands like a balloon. Here's what you need to know following surgery.

You have undergone knee replacement surgery. Here are directions for care at home.

This sheet includes ways to protect yourself from infection after your transplant. You will continue these precautions until your health care provider tells you to stop. You may need to follow these guidelines for the rest of your life.

During your child's umbilical hernia repair surgery, the health care provider made a small incision and repaired the muscle. Here are some instructions to help you care for your child once at home.

Here's how to care for yourself at home following a uterine fibroid embolization.

Screening for prostate cancer can help check if you have cancer. Screening tests often include a digital rectal exam (DRE) and a prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test. Talk with your healthcare provider about the pros and cons of regular screening starting at age 50 or earlier if you are at higher risk.

Read on to learn about grading of prostate cancer. Low-grade cancers are more similar to normal tissue. High-grade cancers differ from normal tissue in the way cells are organized, and in cell size and shape. The higher the grade, the faster the cancer is likely to be growing.

The prostate gland is part of the reproductive system for people who are assigned male at birth. Here are images of and details about the prostate gland.