Year: 2012 Archive — Page 30 of 50

Large brick and glass multi-story buildings viewed beyond leafy trees under a clear blue sky.
August 13, 2012

Cookeville Regional Medical Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center announce affiliation agreement

By John Howser
Stylized blue human torso beside a glowing green electrocardiogram waveform on a dark grid background.
August 10, 2012

Key to a woman’s heart (condition)?

Females may be at higher risk of potentially fatal heart condition due to gender differences in a protein involved in the heart’s electrical activity.

By Vanderbilt Health News
lungs
August 9, 2012

New therapeutic target for cold, flu viruses identified

Viruses that cause acute respiratory infections — such as human metapneumovirus (HMPV) and flu — impair a set of immune system cells that should clear the virus from the lungs.
Now, Vanderbilt University investigators have discovered the signaling pathway that disables these immune cells.

By Leigh MacMillan
August 9, 2012

Study tracks how gene may promote lung cancer tumors

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have identified how one of the genes most commonly mutated in lung cancer may promote such tumors.

By Vanderbilt Health News
A smiling woman in a hospital gown sits beside a man wearing a dark baseball cap and gray shirt in a hospital room.
August 9, 2012

Time was critical for new mother’s heart surgery

Two weeks after giving birth to her second child on July 10, 31-year-old Samantha Neal began to experience chest pain. Initially diagnosed with a gall bladder issue in her local ER, her true diagnosis would prove much more serious and potentially life-threatening.

By Kathy Whitney
Professional head-and-shoulders portrait of a gray-haired man with glasses and a trimmed gray beard, wearing a brown jacket, white shirt, and patterned tie.
August 9, 2012

Armstrong named fellow of American Chemical Society

Vanderbilt University’s Richard Armstrong, Ph.D., has been named to the fourth class of American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellows in recognition of his “outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession and the society.”

By Bill Snyder