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Back to Health Dashboard- Find information about all types of birth control, including long-term, hormone-free, easy-to-use, and most effective contraception methods.
- Includes tips to comfort a child before a medical test. Offers tips based on age, from newborns through the teen years.
- Teens can learn about getting confidential health care, and explore topics like choosing the right birth control method and understanding consent.
- 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...
- Live well with diabetes. Learn how to manage your blood sugar through a healthy diet, medications, exercise, and reducing stress.
- 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...
- With a Medicare Advantage plan from Kaiser Permanente, you get medical services, hospital care, prescription drug coverage, and much more.
- 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...
- If you’re new to Kaiser Permanente, we’ll help you get set up. Find a doctor, transfer your prescriptions, and register on kp.org.
- 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...
- Kaiser Permanente has your health care covered when you travel. Discover out-of-area health coverage outside of Washington and plan today.
- 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...
- Take care of yourself to increase your resilience during stressful times, especially if you're pregnant. Get support if you or your partner are struggling.
- Browse a nationwide directory of social health programs for essential needs such as food, housing, jobs, and money for utilities or childcare.
- 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...
- Find helpful videos on many different topics and get tips on improving your health — from managing high blood pressure to regulating your emotions.
- 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 Washington Pharmacy Services offers home delivery, mail order, and online refills. Also find lists of Kaiser Permanente and community pharmacies, and our drug formulary.
- Covers causes and symptoms of high blood pressure. Explains systolic and diastolic pressure numbers. Looks at treatment and prevention steps. Includes risks of untreated high blood pressure such as heart attack, stroke, and kidney failure.
- These are answers to common questions about parental access for Kaiser Permanente member accounts.
- Ultrasound is a test that uses reflected sound waves to produce an image of organs and other structures in the body. It does not use X-rays or other types of possibly harmful radiation. For ultrasound testing, gel or oil is applied to the skin to help transmit the sound waves. A small, handheld instrument called a...
- Understand the range for low-risk drinking, and how a moderate amount of alcohol can affect your health in both positive and negative ways.
- Discusses causes and symptoms of asthma in children. Looks at treatment with medicine such as inhaled corticosteroid and albuterol. Discusses avoiding triggers and treating attacks. Covers using nebulizers, metered-dose with spacer and dry powder inhalers.
- It's easy to find cost details and benefit highlights for various Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage plans, so you can make the right choice for you.
- Discusses HIV, a virus that attacks white blood cells called CD4+ cells which are an important part of the immune system. Covers symptoms and stages of infection, including last stage called AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Covers HIV treatment.
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