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Tools and resources for preventing, diagnosing, and treating respiratory illnesses including the common cold, flu, RSV, and COVID-19.
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- Stay up-to-date on your vaccines
- Explore COVID-19 testing options or report a home antigen result
- Vaccines can help protect you and your family against seasonal respiratory viruses like influenza (the flu) and RSV, as well as COVID-19.
- Walking daily has many health benefits — from supporting mental health to boosting your energy. See how a 30-minute walk can improve your life.
- As vaccines bring hope to end the pandemic, Kaiser Permanente’s toolkit offers approaches to enhance equitable vaccine administration for communities hit hardest by COVID-19.
- Immunotherapy helps treat cancer by supporting the body's immune system. It can restore, boost, or redirect the immune system. It may slow or stop the growth of cancer cells, keep cancer from spreading, or help the immune system destroy cancer cells. Types of immunotherapy Immunotherapy helps treat cancer by supporting...
- Speech and language are the skills we use to communicate with others. We form these skills during the first years of life. By age 6, most children learn the basics. Try to talk and read to your child often to boost these skills. Speech is making...
- Healthy personal relationships can provide support and help reduce stress. The following suggestions can benefit both your relationships and your mental health. Visit with friends and family. Spending time with others can boost your mood. And reaching out can strengthen your connections. Take time to make a phone call...
- Monoclonal antibodies are medicines that act like natural antibodies. Antibodies are proteins your immune system makes to help defend against a threat, like bacteria and viruses. Monoclonal antibodies can boost your immune system and stop or slow the progress of a disease. They have been designed to treat many...
- Sound waves enter the ear through the ear canal. Then they strike the eardrum. The eardrum is what separates the ear canal from the middle ear. The sound waves make the eardrum vibrate. The vibrations move to the bones of the middle ear. This boosts the sound and sends it to the inner ear. The inner ear is a...
- We urge Congress to extend policies that have improved access to care and increased equity.
- Provides questions to help you learn why you use tobacco. Discusses the benefits of quitting and offers strategies for quitting. Explains nicotine dependence and offers link to info on nicotine replacement therapy.
- Offers tips to prevent illness and accidental injuries in babies and young children. Covers SIDS. Discusses common safety hazards. Also discusses healthy habits such as safe food preparation, using car seats, and immunizations. Covers safe baby products.
- When public health systems work together with health organizations, community institutions, and businesses short- and long-term public health challenges are much easier to manage.
- Discusses causes and symptoms of COPD. Looks at chronic bronchitis and emphysema, two diseases that are usually a part of COPD. Covers quitting smoking. Includes treatment with bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids. Offers home treatment tips.
- Discusses cancer pain management. Discusses causes such as tumor pressing on bones or nerves. Covers types of cancer pain. Discusses treatment with medicine, surgery, radiation, and other treatments.
- Kaiser Permanente offers financial assistance for people struggling to pay medical bills.
- What is teen substance use? Many teens try substances like alcohol or drugs. Some try them only a few times and stop. Teens who keep using substances may form a strong need for them. This can lead to substance use disorder. Substances teens may try include tobacco, alcohol, marijuana or other drugs, household products...
- Reducing Medicaid funding will lead to worse health outcomes, overburden emergency rooms, and cause many rural hospitals to close.
- How can you stay healthy on your trip? The best way to stay healthy on your trip is to plan before you go. If you are planning to travel to another country, see a doctor several months before you leave so you will have time for vaccines (immunizations) that you may need to get ahead of time. Also ask your doctor if...
- Better public policies can help address the challenges. We encourage policymakers to focus on 4 key areas.
- Covers how your thoughts can affect your mental and physical health. Offers tips on positive thinking, including having positive expectations.
- To meaningfully improve health equity, we must shift our focus to outcomes and integrate social health into quality measurement.
- Discusses causes of dementia, which include strokes, tumors, and Alzheimer's disease. Covers symptoms like memory loss and forgetfulness. Covers how dementia is diagnosed. Looks at treatment options. Covers issues for caregivers.
- Health care leaders and policymakers should each play their part to help eliminate health disparities.
- Discusses a form of mental decline (also called dementia). Looks at possible causes. Covers symptoms like memory loss and changes in mood or behavior. Covers treatment with medicines to help with memory and thinking problems. Offers tips for caregivers.
- With the right strategies and public policies, we can strengthen our nation’s health system by focusing on this critical part of the workforce.
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