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Back to Health Dashboard- Health Article description.Draining mucus from the lungs and coughing it up can help to clear the lungs. Doing this every day can help your child maintain lung function and avoid problems from mucus. Here are three ways to help clear your child's lungs. You may hear these called airway clearance techniques, or ACT. Postural drainage uses certain...
- Kaiser Permanente has opened a new Radiation Oncology Center at the Bellflower Medical Offices.
- Health Article description.Covers surgery to replace ends of both bones in a damaged joint to create new joint surfaces. Includes slideshow on hip replacement. Looks at why it is done and how well it works. Discusses what to expect after surgery and living with a hip replacement.
- Medicaid and tax credits for acquiring coverage are essential for patients, the economy, and the health care system.
- Health Article description.Lymphedema is a collection of fluid called lymph in the tissues of the body. Normally, this fluid flows through the lymph system. If that system isn't working as it should, fluid can build up in the affected area and cause lymphedema. This happens most often in an arm or leg. What causes lymphedema? Lymphedema may be...
- Health insurance is key to a strong country — it improves health and boosts our economy.
- Health Article description.Focuses on palliative care as a holistic—body, mind, spirit—approach to dealing with serious illness. Explains that palliative care team guides talks about treatment, pain management, hospice care, family needs, and legal issues.
- Kaiser Permanente is working to address drug shortages and support policies that maintain access, improve patient care, and promote affordability.
- It’s time to reform prescription drug pricing policies to increase affordability and better promote innovation.
- Health Article description.What is an ankle sprain? An ankle sprain is an injury that happens when you stretch or tear the ligaments in your ankle. Most sprains happen when you twist your ankle. Afterward, the ankle usually becomes swollen and painful. Even though ankle sprains are common, they aren't always minor injuries. Some people with...
- Kaiser Permanente relies on personal health information to deliver high-quality care. Protecting the confidentiality of that information is required by federal and state law and is a top priority.
- Health Article description.Gender identity is your inner sense of being male, female, both, neither, or another gender. For some people, their gender identity doesn't match the sex they were assigned at birth. Most children start to identify their gender around age 3. Many transgender and gender-diverse adults remember feeling at a young age that...
- Health Article description.Talking with your partner may help your sexual function. Couples often assume that they each know what the other person likes when it comes to sex. Sometimes they are wrong. Don't assume. Tell your partner what does and doesn't give you pleasure.
- America’s best way forward is to build on the progress our country has made and promote coordinated care that rewards quality over quantity.
- Artificial intelligence can improve health care by reducing administrative tasks, supporting diagnoses, and helping clinicians develop personalized treatment plans.
- Health Article description.Provides step-by-step instructions and photos for doing easy and then more intense exercises for patellar tracking disorder.
- Pharmaceutical marketing hurts patient care and drives up costs. At Kaiser Permanente we have a better approach to prescribing and lessons for other leaders.
- Experiencing the Kaiser Permanente health plan led labor unions to support and promote the health plan after World War II for accessible and preventive care.
- Health Article description.You have erection problems if you can't get or keep an erection that is firm enough for you to have sex. Erection problems are also called erectile dysfunction or impotence. They are more common as you get older. There are treatments that can help.
- Kaiser Permanente physicians and staff are now caring for patients at several recently added metro Denver CommonSpirit Health and HCA HealthONE hospitals.
- Health Article description.What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition that causes repeated unwanted thoughts. To get rid of them, you may do the same tasks over and over. For example, if you fear that everything you touch has germs on it, you may wash your hands repeatedly to ease...
- The Kaiser Permanente Colorado Health Action Summit gathered nonprofits, school officials, and policymakers.
- Health Article description.Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower back, known as the lumbar area. The spine is made up of bones called vertebrae. The spinal cord runs through an opening in the bones called the spinal canal. Sometimes bones and...
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