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Alliance for Genomic Discovery Completes 250,000 Whole Genomes to Accelerate Drug Discovery

Nashville Biosciences LLC (NashBio), a leading clinical and genomic data company and wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and global DNA sequencing giant Illumina Inc. today announced that 250,000 whole genomes have been...
20-Mar-2025 10:35 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Lis Henley wins L. Gale Allen President’s Leadership Award at Mid-Winter Conference for Tennessee Ambulance Service Association

Lis Henley, MSN, RN, APRN, FNP-BC, EMT, flight nurse practitioner for Vanderbilt LifeFlight, received the prestigious L. Gale Allen President’s Leadership Award at the annual Mid-Winter Conference hosted by the Tennessee Ambulance Service...
12-Mar-2025 8:15 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Vanderbilt Lung Transplant Establishes New Record

Surgeons and teams with Vanderbilt Lung Transplant performed 99 lung transplants in 2024, the most ever in one year. Two of the procedures involved combined organ transplants. For the second calendar year in a row, Vanderbilt Lung Transplant has the...
7-Mar-2025 7:50 PM EST Add to Favorites

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VUMC Part of New Study Validating Curative Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

A modified bone marrow transplant procedure for sickle cell disease (SCD) co-developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the University of California, San Francisco, can cure the disease, a new...
4-Mar-2025 10:50 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Bottling a Mouse “Superpower” May Heal Lungs Damaged by Premature Birth: Study

Using a four-dimensional microscopy technique, researchers at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have created 3D video images of mouse lung tissue grown in the laboratory. What they have learned has been nothing short of...
24-Feb-2025 7:30 PM EST Add to Favorites

Study Shows End-of-Life Cancer Care Lacking for Medicare Patients

Many Medicare patients with advanced cancer receive potentially aggressive treatment at the expense of supportive care, according to a study that analyzed Medicare records.
21-Feb-2025 5:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Experts Publish Action Plan to Address Appendiceal Cancer Enigmas

The recommendations published in Nature Reviews Cancer are the result of a concerted focus by the Appendix Cancer Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (ACPMP) Research Foundation to better understand the disease that afflicts an estimated 3,000 new patients...
20-Feb-2025 5:50 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Neurologic Complications of Flu Nearly 50 Times Greater for Children with Underlying Neurologic Conditions

“Serious Neurologic Events with Seasonal Influenza in Young Children,” published in Academic Pediatrics, the official journal of the Academic Pediatric Association, looked at the population-based incidence of underrecognized influenza-associated...
13-Feb-2025 9:50 PM EST Add to Favorites


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A Q&A with Jeffrey Upperman, a National Leader in Pediatric Trauma and Disaster Preparedness.

Jeffrey Upperman, MD, surgeon-in-chief at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, talks about why the U.S. needs a coordinated initiative to emphasize the impact of disasters on children to improve both future crisis responses and the...
3-Oct-2024 9:05 AM EDT

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Grant bolsters research to address rising maternal mortality rates

The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized nation, a trend that has been accelerating for 20 years. But nearly two out of three maternal deaths are preventable, with cardiovascular disease (CVD) being the leading...
6-Nov-2023 11:05 AM EST

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Vanderbilt Doctor Available to Speak on Longer Pollen Season

27-Apr-2023 5:05 PM EDT

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Injury Prevention Expert Advises Keeping Safety In Mind When Buying Toys

12-Dec-2022 5:00 PM EST

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Doctors Seeing Increase in Young Females with Tics, Verbal Outbursts Similar to Tourette syndrome

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt typically sees a case of functional tics every few months, according to Heather Riordan, MD, associate professor of Child Neurology. Now the team is seeing a few new cases a week.
21-Oct-2021 9:00 AM EDT

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Pediatricians See Spike In RSV Cases Urge Parents To Be On Lookout For Symptoms

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is seeing a spike in respiratory illnesses, especially RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and parainfluenza, which cause croup and bronchiolitis in young children and flu-like symptoms in older...
24-Jun-2021 12:20 PM EDT

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Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital Expert Offers COVID-19 “Safe Play” Tips for Parents

As the world begins to slowly open back up after months of living in a safer-at-home mode, many families are wondering how best to re-introduce their children to society.
11-Jun-2020 1:05 PM EDT

Safety Experts Urge Driver Caution as School Year Starts

8-Aug-2019 10:05 AM EDT

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