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• Visiting a sexual health clinic

  Find out what happens at a sexual health clinic, such as tests for STIs, symptoms, treatment, safer sex, swabs and telling your partner.

• Dosage

  Read about how anticoagulants are taken, what to do if you miss a dose or take too much, and how your treatment will be monitored.

• Depression in adults

  Read about depression in adults, including how to tell if you're depressed, the treatments for different severities of depression, and how making lifestyle changes can help.

• Epiglottitis

  Find out about epiglottitis, where the flap that covers your windpipe when you swallow (the epiglottis) becomes swollen and covers your windpipe, making it difficult to breathe.

• MRSA

  Find out about MRSA, which is a bacteria that usually lives harmlessly on the skin but can cause a serious infection if it gets inside the body.

• Jet lag

  Find out what causes jet lag and what you can do to reduce its effects. Get plenty of rest before you travel and try adjusting your sleep routine to the time zone of the place you're travelling to.

• Shoulder pain

  Find out how you can relieve shoulder pain, what can cause it and when to get medical advice.

• Actinic keratoses (solar keratoses)

  Find out more about actinic keratoses, which are patches of skin that have been damaged by the sun.

• Broken ankle

  Find out how to tell if your ankle is broken (fractured) and when to get medical advice, plus how a broken ankle is treated and how long it takes to heal.

• Swollen arms and hands (oedema)

  Find out about the causes of swollen arms and hands, what to do about it and when to get help.