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- Kaiser Permanente and CNA met for a fourth time to negotiate an agreement covering nurses at Los Angeles Medical Center.
- How the Kaiser Permanente Community Support Hub® call center helped one member find unexpected stability.
- Learn about patient-centered, comprehensive cancer care at Kaiser Permanente — and our connected approach to prevention, treatment, and recovery.
- Kaiser Permanente is one of 46 National Cancer Institute (NCI) community research centers. Learn about our current cancer research and clinical trials.
- Kaiser Permanente is committed to working together and honoring our mission at the bargaining table.
- Learn about common warning signs for depression, anxiety, and more — and get help talking about mental health and substance use with children and teens.
- Health Article description.The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a cooperative program for vaccine safety of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS allows coordinated and centralized monitoring of possible adverse events (possible side effects) that occur after...
- Pregnancy care is essential for both you and your baby. Find support and resources for every stage of your journey with Kaiser Permanente.
- Health Article description.The nervous system includes the brain, the spinal cord, and all the nerves in the body. Nerves carry information through the spinal cord to the brain about what is happening inside and outside of the body. The brain processes the information and sends messages back through the nerves that control how muscles and other...
- Health Article description.Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that mixes the nervous system's messages about when to sleep and when to be awake. Narcolepsy usually starts during the teen years or early adulthood and continues throughout life. Narcolepsy may cause: Sudden sleep attacks. These may occur at any time during any type of activity, such as...
- Health Article description.Nerves carry messages back and forth from your low back and legs. By testing how well your muscles, reflexes, and sense of feeling are working, your doctor can tell whether there is pressure on a nerve root in your spine. Your doctor often can also...
- Health Article description.Influenza (flu) vaccine can save lives. Sometimes people choose not to get the vaccine because of incorrect information they've heard about the vaccine or the flu. With conflicting messages out there, it can be hard to know what's true and what to...
- Health Article description.Preschool-age children develop a sense of independence by practicing skills and doing things for themselves, such as getting dressed or brushing their teeth. Children who are not allowed to perform tasks on their own get the message that they are...
- Health Article description.Cognition is the ability to think, learn, and remember. It develops as your baby grows. Your baby is born with around 100 billion brain cells (neurons). These cells form connections with each other called synapses. These connections carry messages...
- Health Article description.Calcium is a mineral the body needs to make bones and teeth, transmit nerve messages, tighten (contract) muscles, and help the blood to clot and the heart to function properly. Calcium is found in milk and milk products (including yogurt and cheese); in certain leafy, green vegetables (broccoli, bok choy, kale); in...
- Health Article description.The spinal cord is a soft bundle of nerves that extends from the base of the brain to the lower back. It runs through the spinal canal, which is protected by the bones of the spine (vertebrae). Messages between the brain and the nerve roots travel up and down the spinal cord. This makes it possible for the brain and...
- Health Article description.Neurotransmitters are chemicals produced by the nerve cells in the brain that send messages back and forth across the space between the cells (synapse). When the normal balance of these neurotransmitters is upset, headache, depression, or other mental health problems may develop. Some of the neurotransmitters that are...
- Health Article description.A spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that can interfere with how messages travel back and forth between the brain and the rest of the body. An injury to the spinal cord can result in complete or partial loss of movement (paralysis) and feeling and complete or partial loss of bladder and bowel function. The...
- Health Article description.Provides links to info on cancer. Topics covered include breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and cancer pain. Links to info that can help you make a decision on diagnostic or screening tests. Includes info on treatment choices.
- Get answers to your MyChart questions and learn more about how to manage your health online with the MyChart platform.
- Health Article description.The immune system is the body's natural defense system that helps fight infections. The immune system is made up of antibodies, white blood cells, and other chemicals and proteins that attack and destroy substances such as bacteria and viruses that they recognize as foreign and different from the body's normal healthy...
- Learn how telehealth works at Kaiser Permanente, including how to get video visits, phone appointments, e-visits, and virtual care, covered at no extra cost with most plans.Learn how telehealth works at Kaiser Permanente, including how to get video visits, phone appointments, e-visits, and virtual care, covered at no extra cost with most plans.
- Health Article description.Vaccines help keep you and your child from getting certain diseases that are spread from person to person (infectious diseases). They also help reduce the spread of a disease and prevent a sudden outbreak of the disease, which is called an epidemic.
- Information about COVID-19 self-tests and PCR tests, and how Kaiser Permanente health plans cover testing.
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