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(Group Health Research Institute) Radiologists who interpret more mammograms and spend some time reading diagnostic mammograms do better at determining which suspicious breast lesions are cancer, according to a new report published online on Feb. 22 and in print in the April issue of Radiology.

The multi-site Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium team undertook this largest and most comprehensive study of US radiologists, funded largely through a unique collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute.

(Group Health Research Institute) Try to schedule your screening mammogram during the first week of your menstrual cycle.

It might make breast cancer screening more accurate for pre-menopausal women who choose to have regular mammograms.

This recommendation comes from an article published today in Radiology by Diana Miglioretti, Ph.D., a senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute.

(University of Western Ontario) People who contract gastroenteritis from drinking water contaminated with E coli are at an increased risk of developing high blood pressure, kidney problems and heart disease in later life according to a long term study by researchers at the University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute.

The findings are published online in the British Medical Journal.

(University of Western Ontario) Physicians caring for patients with sepsis may soon have a new safe and cost-effective treatment for this life-threatening illness.

Research led by Dr. Karel Tyml and his colleagues at The University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute have found that vitamin C can not only prevent the onset of sepsis, but can reverse the disease.

(Group Health Research Institute) Children in King County, Washington, are more likely to be obese if they live in socially disadvantaged neighborhoods, according to research from Group Health Research Institute, Seattle Children's Research Institute, and the University of Washington (UW) that Social Science & Medicine e-published before printing.

The team collected "de-identified" electronic medical record information on 8,616 children age 6-18 at Group Health Cooperative -- and correlated these data with the socio-economic characteristics of Seattle-area census tracts.

(Group Health Research Institute) People with diabetes have a 40 percent greater risk of developing atrial fibrillation, the most common type of chronically irregular heartbeat, according to a study led by Dr.

Sascha Dublin of Group Health Research Institute. Her research found this risk rises even higher the longer people have diabetes and the less controlled their blood sugar is.

(University of British Columbia) The benefits of marijuana in tempering or reversing the effects of Alzheimer's disease have been challenged in a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.

(Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies) Group Health Research Institute, formerly Group Health Center for Health Studies, will receive more than $15 million in federal stimulus funding from ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The Institute was awarded 52 percent of the ARRA dollars (44 percent of the grants) for which it applied, a high rate of success for any competitive awards -- and especially for these ones.