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“I Owe My Life to the Test”

Coinciding with Colon Cancer Awareness Month (March), Kaiser Permanente Northern California received the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable’s prestigious “80% by 2018” National Achievement Award, in recognition of screening rates over 83 percent for colorectal cancer.

Kaiser Permanente Substance Abuse Researcher Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

The Research Society on Alcoholism awarded its 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to Constance (Connie) Weisner, DrPH, for a "long, balanced career including outstanding research, training, service, and advocacy."

5 Questions for… Bette Caan

March 18, 2019
5 Questions, Cancer, Feature, Women’s health
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Does weight gain — or loss — change a breast cancer patient's cancer outcome? What about muscle mass? Epidemiologist Bette Caan wanted to find out about that, and more.

Temperament of Babies Born to Mothers with Diabetes During Pregnancy Linked to Childhood Obesity

March 11, 2019
Children’s health, Gestational Diabetes, Nutrition, Obesity
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Kaiser Permanente prospective study finds that easier-to-soothe babies were more likely to be obese by age 5, and more likely to have started drinking sugared beverages during the first 6 months of life.

New Guidelines for Perinatal Depression are Important, but Barriers Remain

February 12, 2019
Maternal/infant health, Mental health, Perinatal health, Women’s health
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New recommendations suggest that clinicians should provide or refer pregnant and postpartum women who are at increased risk of perinatal depression to counseling interventions. These recommendations are “an important step forward” wrote research scientists and doctors at Kaiser Permanente, in a JAMA Pediatrics editorial.

Kaiser Permanente Teledermatology Finds More Skin Cancers with Fewer Dermatology Visits

Primary care physicians take high-resolution pictures of skin lesions with a dermatoscope and digital camera, then transmit them to dermatologists via the electronic health record.

The New Faces of Health Care Research, Pt. 2

January 30, 2019
Alcohol and drug, Cardiovascular, Feature, Infectious disease, telehealth, Vaccine research, Vaccines
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In part 2 of our profile series, meet the last three of the seven early-career researchers who began their post-doctoral appointments this past year and represent not only diverse communities but diverse research interests as well.

The New Faces of Health Care Research

January 22, 2019
Autism, Cardiovascular, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Delivery Science, Feature, Hospital systems, Infectious disease, Vaccine research
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Seven early-career researchers began their post-doctoral appointments this past year and represent not only diverse communities but diverse research interests as well. This is Part 1 of our new class profile.

Linking Smoking Interventions to Surgery Yields Successful Outcomes

January 18, 2019
Press Release, Smoking
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A pilot program to help people quit smoking by focusing interventions around surgery time improved patients’ ability to sustain quitting in the 30 days following hospital discharge.

Work by the Division of Research Makes Top JAMA Lists for 2018

January 14, 2019
Breastfeeding, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Feature, Maternal/infant health, Vaccine research, Vaccines, Women’s health
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The JAMA Network, the publication home for numerous top-tier journals from the American Medical Association, released a list of the “Most Talked About Articles” in each of their various publications for 2018. DOR research appears on four lists.