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• 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.
• High-risk women get breast MRI—but room remains for improvement

  A large national study in JAMA Internal Medicine has found that the rate of women receiving breast MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) nearly tripled from 2005 to 2009: from four to 11 exams per 1,000 women.
• 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
• NIH expands Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units

  A nationwide group of institutions that conducts clinical trials of promising candidate vaccines and therapies for infectious diseases, known as the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs), has been awarded nine contracts to strengthen and broaden the scope of its research. Group Health Research Institute is one of these institutions.
• Pet therapy project serves as crowdfunding guinea pig

  Working with cancer patients, thinking about the kids she met years ago as a volunteer, and coming home to two comforting cats (Ashley and Brown Cat) inspired Jessica Chubak to look into animal-assisted activities for children with cancer.