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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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- Stay up-to-date on your vaccines
- Explore COVID-19 testing options or report a home antigen result
- With the right policies and partnerships, artificial intelligence can lead to higher-quality, more equitable care.
- Guides you through ways to add nutritious calories and protein to your diet.
- Policy changes are crucial for better opioid addiction treatment.
- Discusses polycystic ovary syndrome, a problem in which female hormones are out of balance. Discusses PCOS early symptoms like heavy bleeding or facial hair. Also covers more serious symptoms like miscarriages or infertility. Includes info on treatment.
- A statement from chair and chief executive Greg A. Adams on the importance of this recently passed legislation.
- Covers eating healthy foods when you have COPD. Offers tips to make eating easier and help you get necessary nutrition.
- Actions policymakers can take to grow and diversify the mental health care workforce.
- Changing my career and becoming a therapist revealed ways our country can grow its mental health workforce.
- 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...
- Advanced medical science improves patient outcomes. We urge lawmakers to continue providing full support for research funding and the agencies that lead research.
- 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...
- Better public policies can help address the challenges. We encourage policymakers to focus on 4 key areas.
- 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 must do more to prevent gun violence and educate on its health implications in our society.
- 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...
- Equal medical care is not enough to end disparities in health outcomes.
- 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.
- Kaiser Permanente applauds the Food and Drug Administration’s commitment to prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.
- 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...
- 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.
- Kaiser Permanente’s statement on vaccine access.
- Henry J. Kaiser's commitment to the diverse workforce on the home front represents timeless American values.
- 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...
- Organizations that provide public mental health crisis services must work together with health care organizations to care for people in need.
- 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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