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BPA Linked to Obesity Risk in Puberty-Age Girls
BPA Linked to Obesity Risk in Puberty-Age Girls
Girls between 9 and 12 years of age with higher-than-average levels of bisphenol-A in their urine had double the risk of being obese than girls with lower levels of BPA, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the journal PLOS ONE.
6/19/13 Survey: Americans Expect Schools to Lead in Preventing Childhood Obesity
6/6/13 Rate of Chorioamnionitis More than Doubled since 1995
5/24/13 Young Children Who Miss Well-Child Visits are More Likely to be Hospitalized
5/22/13 Kaiser Permanente Study Finds New Pneumococcal Vaccine Appears to be as Safe as Previously Used Vaccine
5/20/13 Study Shows Whole-Cell Vaccine More Effective Than Acellular Vaccine During California Pertussis Outbreak
5/15/13 Erectile Dysfunction More Common in Men Who Regularly Take Prescription Painkillers
5/8/13 Fun and Friends Help Ease the Pain of Breast Cancer
5/6/13 Black Women Have Higher Incidence of Multiple Sclerosis than White Women
4/29/13 Watch video now! Visiting the Doctor Boosts Colon Cancer Screening Rates
4/29/13 Kaiser Permanente Colorado Study on Health360
4/23/13 Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Varied Reasons Why Patients Do Not Fill their Initial Statin Prescriptions
4/18/13 Nearly 30 Percent of Women Fail to Pick Up New Prescriptions for Osteoporosis, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds
4/1/13 Varicella Vaccine has Long-Term Effectiveness Against Chicken Pox
3/25/13 Adults with Diabetes and Limited Health Literacy Less Likely to Adhere to Prescribed Antidepressants
3/18/13 Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Younger Patients, Black Men Not Seeing Improvements in Heart Failure Hospital Stays
3/14/13 High-Fat Dairy Products Linked to Poorer Breast Cancer Survival
3/6/13 Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect® Enables Care Improvement and Transformation
2/27/13 Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Diabetes Does Not Increase Risk of Total Knee Surgical Complications
2/26/13 First-of-Its-Kind Study by Kaiser Permanente Examines Gaps in How Physicians, Media and Policymakers Talk About Health
2/18/13 Kaiser Permanente Study: Short-Term Risk of Hip Implant Failure Higher for Women
2/11/13 Watch video now! Vitamin D Potency Varies Widely in Dietary Supplements
2/11/13 Kaiser Permanente Mail-Order Pharmacies Reduce Medication Errors and Save Patients Time and Money
2/5/13 Kaiser Permanente’s Obesity Prevention Interventions in Schools Show Signs of Success for Improving Children’s Health
1/31/13 Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Men Taking Long-Acting Chronic Pain Medications Five Times more Likely to have Low Testosterone Levels
1/29/13 Kaiser Permanente Study Reveals Two-Fold Higher Incidence of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers for Individuals with HIV
1/28/13 In Preventing Diabetes-Related Heart Disease, Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Targets are Higher Priorities than Blood Sugar
1/21/13 Watch video now! Nearly Half of Children Under 2 Years of Age Receive Some Vaccinations Late
1/21/13 Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Childhood Diagnosis of ADHD Increased Dramatically over Nine-Year Period
1/15/13 Watch video now! Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Changes in Prostate Specific Antigen Levels over Time can Help Predict Aggressive Prostate Cancer
1/9/13 Watch video now! Kaiser Permanente Study Suggests Tests Routinely Done on Patients with Microscopic Blood in Urine can be Avoided