Year: 2012 Archive — Page 38 of 50
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June 15, 2012
Family members can often sabotage diabetes care: study
Nonsupportive family members contribute to poor adherence to medication regimens and lower glycemic control in adults with diabetes. -
June 14, 2012
Vanderbilt mourns loss of Frances Williams Preston
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June 14, 2012
Roots of childhood brain tumors
Cells in the back of the developing brain can give rise to brain tumors, suggesting they may be a target for treatment. -
June 12, 2012
Mixed results define 2012 Tennessee Men’s Health Report Card
Heart disease is still the leading cause of death for men in Tennessee and cancer deaths continue to move further away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy People 2020 goal, according to the 2012 Tennessee Men’s Health Report Card. -
June 12, 2012
Making order out of ordinal data
A new statistical tool developed by Vanderbilt biostatisticians will help medical researchers make sense of a commonly encountered – but hard-to-analyze – type of data. -
June 11, 2012
Vanderbilt identifies genes linked to breast cancer chemo resistance
A study led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators has identified a gene expression pattern that may explain why chemotherapy prior to surgery isn’t effective against some tumors and suggests new therapy options for patients with specific subtypes of breast cancer.