Teen Health

The challenge at Oakland nonprofit Youth Radio was deceptively simple: Build an app to help young people with their health. But with the Apple App Store already offering around 2 million apps,...

The feeling is also common among tween and teens, who may revisit the clingy stage as they cope with the stress and change that comes with growing up.

Severe obesity affects 4 to 6 million U.S. adolescents. Kaiser Permanente researchers are exploring solutions to this major problem. Two of them — David Arterburn, MD, MPH, and Karen J....

In 2008, Brooke Romero had just graduated high school. While enjoying a pleasant summer before beginning the next, exciting phase of her life attending college, she received some startling news....

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Kaiser Permanente Pediatrician-Researcher David C. Grossman, MD discusses how teen suicide can be prevented by better identification and treatment of those with depression and substance abuse problems, and by storing guns more safely.

Kaiser Permanente grants $3.1 Million to Healthier Generation’s Healthy Schools Program. The program is key to their mission to promote healthy habits for kids, and continues to be a signature part of the Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools initiative.

A recent Kaiser Permenante study finds that talk therapy can be a cost-effective way to treat teens with depression who don't take or stop using antidepressants.

Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre's production of “What Goes Around” stresses in a nonjudgmental way how STDs can be contracted through unprotected sex.