Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center | 100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs 2016
Becker's Hospital Review named Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center to the 2016 edition of its list, "100 hospitals and health systems with great heart programs."
Why Your Heart Disease Risk May Not Be as High as You Think
Kaiser Permanente has found that a calculator predicting heart attack and stroke events overestimates the risk for adults. The Kaiser Permanente study was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Overweight Colorectal Cancer Patients Have Higher Survival Rate
Overweight colorectal cancer patients were 55 percent less likely to die from their cancer than normal-weight patients who have the disease, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in JAMA Oncology.
Life Expectancy for People with HIV Continues to Improve
HIV used to be a death sentence. Now, thanks to combination antiretroviral therapy, those that have it are likely get other diseases.
Kaiser Permanente’s Autism Biobank Aims to Help Research
So far, 1,200 families are helping Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Division of Research build the Autism Family Biobank to study risk factors and manifestations of autism. Families can sign up at autismfamilybiobank.kp.org or call 866-279-0733.
Study Adds PCBs to List of Chemicals Linked to Autism
Researchers are exploring associations between environmental contaminants and autism, which affects 1 in 68 children in the U.S.