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Back to Health Dashboard- Kaiser Permanente opens medical offices and a new home for the Watts Counseling and Learning Center to bring next-level services to the Southern California community.
- 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...
- Bill Coggins, who founded the Kaiser Permanente Watts Counseling and Learning Center in 1967, wins the 2024 George Halvorson Community Health Leadership Award.
- Kaiser Permanente cares for our members with a coordinated and connected approach to care, nation-leading prevention, and cutting-edge treatment.
- Discusses recurrent breast cancer. Covers symptoms and tests that diagnose cancer that has come back or spread. Discusses treatment with medicine or surgery. Offers home treatment tips for drug side effects or pain. Covers addressing emotional needs.
- The expanded new location provided care to a greater population of members in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Discusses prostate cancer that has spread or come back. Discusses symptoms. Covers treatment choices and factors that will affect them, including age, PSA level, Gleason score, and how far cancer has spread. Covers end-of-life issues.
- Emotional well-being is as important as physical health in pregnancy and postpartum. Find resources to help you cope with depression, anxiety, and more.
- Discusses testing, diagnosis, and treatment of cervical cancer. Explains how most cervical cancer is caused by a virus called human papillomavirus, or HPV. Explains that it's usually found through screening. Covers prevention with vaccine.
- When polio epidemics erupted, pioneering treatments by Dr. Herman Kabat improved quality of life and care for patients nationwide.
- Provides info on an initial diagnosis. Discusses diagnostic tests, including PSA test and digital rectal exam. Covers symptoms common to prostate cancer and other conditions. Discusses treatment with active surveillance, surgery, or radiation. Also offers prevention tips.
- Discusses cancer that occurs when cells that are not normal grow out of control in testicles (testes). Covers testicular self-exam (TSE). Discusses germ-cell tumors called seminomas and nonseminomas (also called NSGCTs). Covers treatment.
- To meaningfully improve health equity, we must shift our focus to outcomes and integrate social health into quality measurement.
- Kaiser Permanente in Southern California partners with San Diego Wave Fútbol Club player Naomi Girma to champion women’s health and wellness through sports.
- Find health classes and programs designed to help you reach your wellness goals, and learn how to make lifestyle changes you can stick to in the future.
- Actions policymakers can take to grow and diversify the mental health care workforce.
- Kaiser Permanente increases access to mental health services in Southern California.
- When cancer comes back or spreads, you may find yourself looking for ways to cope with what is happening. Your past experience has taught you a lot about what helps you in tough situations. Think about how that can help you now. Use what you learned before. Every life has challenges, and you have learned things from all...
- In the 1960s, Harold Willson successfully advocated for the historically overlooked needs of people with disabilities on public transportation.
- Psychosis is a mental and behavioral disorder in which a person has trouble telling the difference between what is real and what is not real. It may cause bizarre thoughts and behavior. A person with psychosis may have: Delusions, which are firmly held but false beliefs. Irrational suspicion of others (paranoia) is a...
- These important research studies aim to help patients live longer, better lives. A chief of oncology explains how.
- What is cerebral palsy (CP)? Cerebral palsy (CP) is a problem that makes it hard for a child to control movement. It's caused by injury to the brain. Usually this injury happens before birth. The brain injury that causes CP doesn't get worse over time, but symptoms may start, change, or become more severe as a child...
- Funding from Kaiser Permanente in Washington helps to promote mental health, provide access to healthy food, improve community conditions, and develop safe, thriving neighborhoods.
- Describes pancreatic cancer. Talks about symptoms and what tests are used to diagnose it. Provides treatment details. Lists factors that raise your risk.
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