All Articles on Health

• Group Health approved for funding awards by PCORI

  Research teams at Group Health Research Institute have been approved for funding awards by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study opioid therapy and asthma—and to help expand a health data network that will be part of PCORnet: the National Patient-Centered National Clinical Research Network.
• 3 decades on: How Group Health’s practical research changed health care

  When we say that Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) does practical research to help people like you and your family stay healthy, what do we mean? The short answer: We study what works—and what doesn't—to achieve the most important outcome for people.
• GHRI’s next 30 years: Imagine personalized medicine, empowered patients, better health

  For Group Health Research Institute’s (GHRI) 30th anniversary, we asked our faculty and staff: How will your work today influence health and health care 30 years from now, in the year 2043?
• Allen Foundation drives traumatic brain injury study forward

  The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has awarded a new $2.37-million grant to help Seattle-area researchers embark on an important research effort designed to investigate the lasting effects of traumatic brain injuries—an area that has long been filled with question marks for physicians and scientists.
• Group Health and UW scientist Bruce M. Psaty, MD, PhD, named to Institute of Medicine

  The Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced today, Oct. 21, that Bruce M. Psaty, MD, PhD, has been newly elected into its membership ranks, one of the most prestigious honors in the fields health and medicine.
• Less blood clot risk is linked to estradiol than to Premarin pills

  In an observational study of comparative safety, use of estradiol was associated with less risk of developing blood clots in leg veins (deep vein thrombosis) and clots in the lungs (pulmonary emboli) than was use of conjugated equine estrogens.
• Put away the fact sheets: Health messages must pop!

  We’ve got the intervention down, but we often miss the hook.” That’s what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expert told a crowded auditorium in Atlanta last month