All Articles on Health

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  Kids need to lose weight? Set goals and work together

  Research-proven treatments for childhood and adolescent obesity exist, but they rely on regular one-on-one meetings with a trained health coach. These “behavioral” treatments are seldom available outside of research studies in specialty medical centers.
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  Depression: Answers to 3 frequently asked questions

  Depression: What causes it, who gets it, and what works?
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  How to talk to your doctor about depression

  If you've been feeling down for a while, research shows telling your doctor about your symptoms is a smart choice. Depression can affect you in many ways: mentally, emotionally, and physically. To help you feel better, your doctor will work with you to check your current state, finding out if you do, in fact, have depression.
• Group Health & UW showcase analytic methods built for the real world

  Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials—which collect data on carefully selected populations under ideal conditions—pragmatic clinical trials take place in everyday settings and take advantage of existing data sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs). These methods will take center stage this September at the First Seattle Symposium on Health Care Data Analytics.
• Recently using some birth control pills may raise breast cancer risk

  Women who recently used birth control pills containing high-dose estrogen and a few other formulations had an increased risk for breast cancer, whereas women using some other formulations did not, according to a report about Group Health patients published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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  Group Health nurse midwives test innovative care model

  Nurse midwives test innovative care model: combining individual care with group support
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  How to prevent disparities in colon cancer screening

  Group Health, Kaiser Permanente researchers in JAMA Internal Medicine