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Back to Health Dashboard- A new location-based vaccine strategy by Kaiser Permanente was successful in addressing COVID-19 vaccination disparities among underserved communities.
- Guides you through decision to take medicines for Alzheimer's disease. Covers medicine choices and their side effects. Lists reasons for and against taking medicines. Includes interactive tool to help you make your decision.
- We must do more to prevent gun violence and educate on its health implications in our society.
- Covers eating healthy foods when you have COPD. Offers tips to make eating easier and help you get necessary nutrition.
- Advanced medical science improves patient outcomes. We urge lawmakers to continue providing full support for research funding and the agencies that lead research.
- When you have cancer, you may have a lot of different feelings, like anger, sadness, and fear. And your feelings can change from day to day, and even moment to moment. Most people who have cancer deal with feelings like this. Although it may be hard at first, look for things each day that help you find a new sense of...
- Equal medical care is not enough to end disparities in health outcomes.
- Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare nerve disorder that occurs when the body's own defenses (immune system) attack part of the peripheral nervous system. Symptoms usually start with numbness or tingling in the fingers and toes, followed by muscle weakness in the legs, arms, and other muscles that develops over a period of...
- Kaiser Permanente applauds the Food and Drug Administration’s commitment to prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.
- Why is fiber important? Eating a diet high in fiber is thought to help prevent constipation and its related problems. It may lower blood pressure, improve cholesterol levels, and help control blood sugar levels. And it may help you reach and stay at a healthy weight. What is the recommended daily amount of fiber? In...
- We applaud President Biden and Congress as they begin to set policies that focus on evidence-based approaches to meeting Americans’ mental health needs.
- If you are at risk for low blood sugar levels because of diabetes or some other health condition, you need to keep some type of quick-sugar food with you at all times. These foods can quickly raise your blood sugar level. Eating quick-sugar food raises your blood sugar in 10 to 15 minutes. Choose fast-acting...
- Kaiser Permanente backs national efforts to ban flavored tobacco.
- You can help reduce flare-ups of your COPD by learning what the triggers are and avoiding them. Pay attention to symptoms that may warn you of a flare-up. While some triggers may be out of your control, there are others that may be easier to avoid.
- Organizations that provide public mental health crisis services must work together with health care organizations to care for people in need.
- Menopause is the point in your life when you permanently stop having menstrual periods. After 1 year of having no periods, you've reached menopause. In most cases, menopause happens around age 50. But everyone's body has its own time line. You may stop having periods in your mid-40s. Or you might have them well into...
- Proactive flu prevention outreach helped community members in Downey, California, enjoy safer, healthier holidays.
- Your teen will need a complete evaluation to determine the level of substance use and the presence of other mental health or medical conditions. If you need to place your teen in a treatment program, look for one that uses evidence-based practices to treat substance use. Cost may also be an important factor to consider...
- Medicaid and tax credits for acquiring coverage are essential for patients, the economy, and the health care system.
- Enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of 2025. We urge Congress to keep them permanent.
- Reducing Medicaid funding will lead to worse health outcomes, overburden emergency rooms, and cause many rural hospitals to close.
- We donated over $28 million worth of face masks, hand sanitizer, and other supplies as part of our community health work in 2021.
- A hearing (audiometric) test is part of an ear exam that tests how well a person is able to hear. It is done by measuring how well sound can reach the brain. The sounds we hear start as vibrations in the air around us. The vibrations make sound waves, which vibrate at a certain speed (frequency) and have a certain...
- Grants expand support for faith-based organizations working to protect Black and Latino communities from COVID-19.
- Humor therapy (sometimes called therapeutic humor) uses the power of smiles and laughter to aid healing. Humor therapy helps you find ways to make yourself (or others) smile and laugh more. When you think of humor therapy, picture clowns in the children's ward of a hospital cheering up sick children. Some hospitals now...
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