New Program Targets Next Generation of Physicians to Advance Latino Health
TPMG and UC Davis are launching a new initiative at UC Davis School of Medicine dedicated to building the next generation of physicians committed to advancing Latino health.
Morris Collen, Pioneer in Computerized Medicine, Dies at 100
Dr. Morris F. Collen, a founding partner of The Permanente Medical Group who, until recently, worked part time at Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research, died on September 27, 2014, of cancer. He was 100.
Kaiser Permanente’s Hospitals in Northern California Receive Top Ranking from U.S. News and World Report
Eight Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California are rated “high performing,” according to U.S. News and World Reports’ 2014-15 Best Hospitals in America rankings.
Drug Samples in Dermatology: Out of the Closet, Into the Dustbin
Dermatologists tend to prescribe more expensive medications when they also give their patients drug samples, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. Kenneth Katz, MD, a TPMG dermatologist, published an editorial pointing out that Kaiser Permanente bans drug sampling and other conflicts of interest related to the pharmaceutical industry.
Exclusive: TPMG Calls Price for New $84K Hep-C Drug “Outrageous”
Kaiser Permanente said it is using Gilead Sciences’ new, breakthrough hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi, even though its $84,000 treatment price is exorbitant. “It’s an outrageous price for a therapy that has huge public health implications, ” said Sharon Levine, MD, associate director of The Permanente Medical Group.
Kaiser Permanente Northern California Recognized as “Million Hearts Hypertension Control Champion”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services named Kaiser Permanente Northern California a Million Hearts Hypertension Control Champion. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that we nearly doubled the rate of blood-pressure control among adult patients with hypertension from 2001 to 2009 through one of the largest, community-based programs in the nation.
KP Redwood City Neurosurgery Team Performs High-Precision, High-Tech Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
Our Redwood City Medical Center is a regional Center of Excellence for Neuroscience and Neurosurgery. We offer a relatively new surgical procedure called Deep Brain Stimulation that involves placing tiny electrodes into the brain and connecting them to an implanted device programmed to deliver tiny electrical jolts to the brain. Each jolt essentially re-sets the muscle control area and stops tremors.