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Tools and resources for preventing, diagnosing, and treating respiratory illnesses including the common cold, flu, RSV, and COVID-19.
- See the most common signs and symptoms
- Manage your symptoms from home
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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.
- Available 24/7 with no appointment, e-visits offer Kaiser Permanente members quick, convenient online care for many health concerns such as flu or COVID-19 symptoms.
- Testing is the most important way you can help control the spread of COVID-19.
- Kaiser Permanente and other leading companies are mandating COVID-19 shots because ending this pandemic depends on it.
- Grants expand support for faith-based organizations working to protect Black and Latino communities from COVID-19.
- A new location-based vaccine strategy by Kaiser Permanente was successful in addressing COVID-19 vaccination disparities among underserved communities.
- Video visits and virtual collaboration speed cancer care transformation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- With the COVID-19 public health emergency ending, states, community organizations, and health plans should partner to help people maintain Medicaid and other coverage.
- A plant-based diet can boost your health, increase energy, and manage your weight. Get tips from Kaiser Permanente on how to make the switch.
- Kaiser Permanente grants are supporting businesses such as the Carefree Bar and Grill in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 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.
- Kaiser Permanente research underscores the importance of culturally appropriate pandemic response and vaccination strategies.
- New care option offers pregnant patients a mix of in-person and video visits.
- Making key pandemic-era telehealth policies permanent and ensuring more people have reliable internet access will improve health outcomes for all.
- 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...
- How is it that two people of the same age, gender, and height can eat the same foods and be equally active, but one gains weight while the other loses it? One piece of the puzzle is metabolism. How well your body burns energy to keep up basic functions like heartbeat, breathing, and thinking is called your basal...
- What is speech and language development? 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 the sounds that become words—the...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Six steps help you prep for winter trips.
- 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.
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