PermanenteDocs Chat on a new generation learning to live with HIV
Watch this recent chat to learn how Kaiser Permanente's integrated care model advances HIV care and treatment.
Gen Z and the next generation of HIV prevention
Colin Fields, MD, chief of HIV and PrEP at Washington Permanente Medical Group, calls for more HIV awareness among young adults, suggesting prevention messages spread through social media.
Initial COVID-19 drug trials ‘give us hope,’ Stephen Parodi, MD, tells CBSN
Stephen Parodi, MD, associate executive director of The Permanente Medical Group and national infectious disease leader for Kaiser Permanente, spoke with CBSN recently about why trials with remdesivir and other drugs matter. CBSN is the CBS News 24/7 digital streaming service.
Kaiser Permanente researchers weigh in on algorithm that predicts risk of H.I.V. infection
A recent article in The New York Times examines an that doctors can use to assess patient risk for H.I.V and recommend a daily pill to prevent infection – a strategy referred to as PrEP. The idea to use data from electronic health records to determine if patients are at high risk for H.I.V. infection was borne from researchers at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Northern California and Harvard.
Analytical tool could identify more patients at risk of contracting HIV
An algorithm developed by Kaiser Permanente researchers in Northern California could refer more at-risk patients for the preventive medication PrEP.
Stephen Parodi, MD, on Preventing Drug-Resistant HIV Infections
The article reported that resistance develops in two drugs used in PrEP because conventional HIV treatment uses three drugs.