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Back to Health Dashboard- Policymakers can help expand and diversify the mental health care workforce.
- Health Article description.Each Decision Point is designed to guide you through a key health decision. Decision Points combine medical information with your personal values to help you make a wise health decision. See a list of: Decision Points about medical tests. Decision Points about medicines. Decision Points about surgeries. Decision Points...
- Ellamae Simmons, MD, worked at Kaiser Permanente for 25 years, and to this day plays a central role in how Kaiser Permanente embraces diversity and inclusion.
- Health Article description.Briefly discusses common sexually transmitted infections. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care.
- Kaiser was a major figure in the construction, engineering, and shipbuilding industries. In co-founding Kaiser Permanente, he helped transform American health care systems and care delivery.
- Health Article description.Anesthesia is a way to control pain using anesthetic medicine. General anesthesia, which can be injected into a vein or inhaled, affects the entire body and makes the person unconscious. A person under general anesthesia is completely unaware of what is going on and does not feel pain during the surgery or procedure...
- Kaiser Broadcasting radio connected listeners, while TV stations brought together viewers.
- Health Article description.Covers causes and symptoms of asthma in teens and adults. Includes info on avoiding triggers and treating attacks. Looks at treatment with controller medicine. Covers delivery systems that include metered-dose and dry powder inhalers and nebulizers.
- The program helps people have more good days and live independently. Policymakers should take steps to expand it.
- Sidney R. Garfield, MD, and Henry J. Kaiser came together to pioneer an innovative health care model.
- Health Article description.An environmental illness can occur when you are exposed to chemicals, fumes, pollution, allergens, viruses, or toxins or physical hazards found in the environment. These health hazards may be found where you live, work, or play. Maybe you have...
- As a 2025 top Military Friendly Employer, Kaiser Permanente supports veterans in many ways.
- Health Article description.Explains what breastfeeding is, benefits, how to plan for it, and how often to breastfeed. Includes step-by-step instructions. Covers common problems and when to call for help.
- A $5 million grant will expand trauma care for students and staff in Pasadena, California, after the Eaton Fire.
- Health Article description.Local anesthesia is a method to deliver pain control medicine to a specific area. It can be injected or applied to the skin or mucous membranes to numb an area and its surrounding tissues. Local anesthesia does not make the person sleepy or relieve other pains. But it may be used along with other medicines that have...
- When polio epidemics erupted, pioneering treatments by Dr. Herman Kabat improved quality of life and care for patients nationwide.
- Health Article description.Discusses causes and symptoms of asthma in children. Looks at treatment with medicine such as inhaled corticosteroid and albuterol. Discusses avoiding triggers and treating attacks. Covers using nebulizers, metered-dose with spacer and dry powder inhalers.
- Kaiser Permanente grant and challenge spark $18.7 million for Denver Health’s uncompensated care.
- Health Article description.Antibodies are proteins made by the body's natural defense system (immune system) to fight foreign substances, such as bacteria. Antibodies attach themselves to the foreign substance, allowing other immune system cells to attack and destroy the substance. The surfaces of viruses, fungi, and bacteria contain markers...
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