Year: 2012 Archive — Page 17 of 50

Circular blue-and-silver hygiene emblem showing hands under running water with the words “CLEAN HANDS SAVE LIVES.”
October 11, 2012

Day set to promote hand hygiene efforts

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s hand hygiene committee will host its annual Hand Hygiene Awareness Day with hand hygiene tables set up outside the Flulapalooza tent on Wednesday, Oct. 17, and Thursday, Oct. 18.

By Nancy Humphrey
Busy indoor vaccination exercise with families and medical staff at a clinic. A seated woman holds a child while a staff member in a red vest labeled “Vaccinator” works nearby; people wait and receive care throughout the hallway.
October 11, 2012

Photo: Family Mass Vaccination

More than 600 people turned out for Vanderbilt’s recent Family Mass Vaccination exercise at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Crowd of Heart Walk participants, many wearing red, walks past Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital; a stroller is visible in the foreground.
October 11, 2012

Heart Walk raises spirits, funds for fight against disease

The skies cleared and the sun shone on the 2012 Nashville Heart Walk that took place on Vanderbilt’s campus on Saturday.

By Kathy Whitney
A healthcare worker in gloves administers an injection to an older man’s upper arm as he sits in a clinic. The man wears a black cap reading “RECRUIT.”
October 11, 2012

Pneumonia vaccine for children to be tested in older adults

Vanderbilt is taking part in a national study to test in older adults the use of a vaccine designed to protect children against a common cause of pneumonia.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Researcher seated beside a microscope in a laboratory, with colorful fluorescent cell images displayed on a monitor behind him.
October 11, 2012

VU recruit’s work lights up genetic ‘dark matter’

They’ve been called “junk DNA” and genetic “dark matter” — the long segments of the human genome (98 percent of it) that do not encode protein.

By Bill Snyder
(Vanderbilt University)
October 11, 2012

Flulapalooza event set for Oct. 17, 18

Vanderbilt University and Medical Center faculty, staff, students and volunteers will once again have the opportunity to be part of a mass flu vaccination plan that last year more than doubled the current world record for the total number of vaccinations given in an eight-hour period.

By Vanderbilt Health News