  Extreme Obesity Affecting More Children at Younger AgesExtreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 710,949 children and teens that appears online in the Journal of Pediatrics. |
Feature Stories
| 3/11/10 | Kaiser Permanente Ranks No. 4 on DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity® Kaiser Permanente was ranked No. 4 on the 2010 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® list, up three spots from the previous year, for its demonstrated use of diversity best practices and results. This is the first time Kaiser Permanente has been ranked in the top 5 of this list. |
| 3/9/10 | Kathy Gerwig Highlights Kaiser Permanente’s Focus on Safer Chemicals, Healthy Environments in Senate Testimony Kathy Gerwig, Kaiser Permanente’s vice president for Workplace Safety and environmental stewardship officer, testified Tuesday before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environment, about Kaiser Permanente’s efforts to curb the use of potentially toxic chemicals. |