Do shingles vaccines help prevent dementia? Scientists will examine whether getting a shingles vaccine lowers the risk of developing dementia. Scientific investigations in this area have shown that shingles vaccines might help prevent dementia, but those studies only used information…

Over the last two years, the blood and saliva samples provided by Kaiser Permanente (KP) Research Bank participants have been genotyped. Now that this work is complete, we will be adding gut microbiome information to the Research Bank. As a…

At the end of 2023, the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Research Bank achieved a milestone — it finished genotyping participants’ blood and saliva samples. Scientists using the KP Research Bank can use this genotyped data to address new research and clinical…