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Tools and resources for preventing, diagnosing, and treating respiratory illnesses including the common cold, flu, RSV, and COVID-19.
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- Manage your symptoms from home
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- Explore COVID-19 testing options or report a home antigen result
- Information on type 2 diabetes. Describes how insulin is made and used by the body. Describes symptoms and how type 2 is treated. Provides info on blood sugar (glucose) levels. Discusses obesity's role in type 2 diabetes. Discusses exercise and diet.
- A basketball coach’s remarkable story of undergoing brain tumor surgery and therapy while coaching her team to victory.
- What kinds of development occur in your baby's first month? Amazing changes are happening in your newborn's development. Babies' brains develop quickly, as they begin to think, learn, and remember. Newborns listen to and learn the sounds of language. They can communicate with sounds and facial expressions. Newborns also...
- Kaiser Permanente launches new mobile health vehicle on Oahu.
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are used to relieve pain and fever and to reduce swelling and inflammation caused by injury or diseases such as arthritis. Aspirin, ibuprofen, ketoprofen, and naproxen are commonly used NSAIDs. NSAIDs may cause side effects. The most common are stomach upset, heartburn, and...
- In August 2023, John Lynn collapsed at work. For the next year, he fought for his life with the support of his Kaiser Permanente care teams.
- Cold and heat therapies are treatments that use cold or heat to help with pain, soreness, muscle spasms, swelling, and inflammation. There are different ways you can do cold and heat therapies. For example, you might use an ice pack for cold therapy or an electric heating pad for heat therapy. Most people like to use...
- 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...
- Attendees look at ways to get healthy food to people who don’t have enough or who have a serious illness.
- Includes causes and symptoms of heart disease. Looks at cholesterol, hypertension, and risk of heart attack. Covers diet, physical activity, and treatment with medicines, angioplasty, and bypass surgery. Includes how to help prevent heart disease.
- 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...
- Kaiser Permanente is making waves this summer, ensuring that communities across Southern California stay cool, safe, and active.
- Hand-washing is more than just running water over your hands. Washing your hands with soap and water is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of infections. It helps prevent diseases, such as colds, flu, and food poisoning. It's easy. It doesn't cost much. And it works. When should you wash your hands? Wash your...
- Cervical cancer is highly preventable. HPV vaccination and regular screenings can greatly reduce your risk.
- Depression is an illness that makes you feel sad, lose interest in things you used to enjoy, withdraw from others, and have little energy. It's more than normal sadness, grief, or low energy. Most people get better with medicine, counseling, or a combination of the two. After you have had an episode of depression, you...
- New medical offices will enhance the health care experience for members and are being built using environmentally sustainable methods.
- An allergic reaction is an overreaction of the immune system to a substance called an allergen. Allergens include chemicals, foods, medicines, mold, plants, and pollen. Symptoms of an allergic reaction can range from mild and annoying to severe and life-threatening. Allergens can affect different tissues in the body...
- Carter Shaver from Portland, Oregon, shares his optimistic smile after the successful removal of a cancerous tumor.
- Greg A. Adams; Maria Ansari, MD, FACC; and Ramin Davidoff, MD, have been named to Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People list.
- 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.
- Kaiser Permanente has opened a new Radiation Oncology Center at the Bellflower Medical Offices.
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