TPMG y La Universidad de California, lanzaron hoy un nuevo proyecto en la Facultad de Medicina UC Davis, que tiene por objeto preparar a la próxima generación de médicos abocados a la promoción de la salud de los latinos.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.