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PASADENA Calif. – The Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation has been awarded more than $3 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study for an additional five years, to 2015. SEARCH is a multi-center observational study that is nationally recognized as the largest and ...

Since joining SCPMG as Director of Research in 2006, Steven Jacobsen, MD, PhD, has grown the Research and Evaluation department from a staff 60 to 160. He aims to leverage the department’s unique strengths to produce high-quality research that can translate into better patient care. PQ: What drew you to the Research & Evaluation department? Jacobsen: Very ...

OAKLAND, Calif. – Kaiser Permanente announced today that Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD, former associate director of RAND Health, has been named director of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research. Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD, director of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research. The Center draws on over 400 Kaiser Permanente researchers ...

PASADENA, Calif. – Receiving the herpes zoster vaccine was associated with a 55 percent reduced risk of developing shingles, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 300,000 people that appears in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. STUDY HIGHLIGHTS There are more than 1 million episodes of shingles every year in the ...

PASADENA, Calif. – Cigarette smoking is widespread among children and young adults with diabetes yet few health care providers are counseling children and young adults with diabetes to not smoke or stop smoking, according to a new report from the SEARCH Study Group, published online in the Journal of Pediatrics. Children and young adults with diabetes ...

PASADENA, Calif – Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3, percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according to a , Kaiser Permanente study of 710,949 children and teens that appears online in ...

PASADENA, Calif. – There is an increased risk of recurring gestational diabetes in pregnant women who developed gestational diabetes during their first and second pregnancies, according to a Kaiser Permanente study appearing online in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Gestational diabetes mellitus, known as GDM, is defined as glucose intolerance that typically occurs ...

PASADENA, Calif. – Extremely obese children have a 40 percent higher risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease and children who are moderately obese have a 30 percent higher risk of GERD compared to normal weight children, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. This large population-based study establishes an ...