All Articles on Chronic Illness

• Back pain: Research on new Group Health guidelines will shine light on changing systems of care

  Few health conditions are as common and confounding as back pain, the second leading cause of all doctor visits.
• 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.
• Gastric bypass surgery helps diabetes but doesn’t cure it

  After gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some people—often even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery “cures” diabetes? Not necessarily, according to the largest community-based study of long-term diabetes outcomes after bariatric surgery. For most people in the study, e-published in advance of print in Obesity Surgery, diabetes either never remitted after gastric surgery or relapsed within five years.