Month: July 2022

July 13, 2022

SHARE Center presentation, “Equitable and empowered environments: Addressing workplace sexual harassment at VUMC,” to be July 21

By VUMC News and Communications
July 12, 2022

VUMC Photography Group

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Photography Group — what you need to know

July 12, 2022

Probing the tumor microenvironment

Vanderbilt researchers used single-cell sequencing, imaging, and computational approaches to characterize the colonic tumor microenvironment, providing important insights to the components that play roles in colorectal tumor pathogenesis.

By Leigh MacMillan
July 11, 2022

eStar Update: New requirements when prescribing certain topical medications

By VUMC News and Communications
July 11, 2022

Fund raiser for VUMC’s Firefly program set for 3rd and Lindsley on Aug. 25

By VUMC News and Communications
July 11, 2022

A speedier treatment for depression?

Vanderbilt researchers used a computer-based search to identify a compound with promise as a new, mechanistically distinct and rapid-acting therapy for major depressive disorder.

By Paul Govern
July 8, 2022

VUMC in the news, July 12, 2022

July 7, 2022

Preempting sudden cardiac death

A technique to characterize all variants in genes associated with arrhythmia could improve the ability to identify and preemptively treat individuals at risk for sudden cardiac death.
By Bill Snyder
July 7, 2022

Professionalism and patient outcomes

A study of more than 70,000 trauma patients found that those who received care from a service with a high proportion of physicians modeling unprofessional behavior were at a 24% increased risk of death or complications.
By Paul Govern
July 7, 2022

New Junior League gift celebrates 100 years of support

By Christina Echegaray
July 7, 2022

Breaking the stigma of AIDS part of Raffanti’s long legacy

On June 29 Stephen Raffanti, MD, MPH, hung up his scrubs at the Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic for the last time. It was a bittersweet moment for the man who helped lead Nashville out of the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic 30 years ago.
By Bill Snyder
July 7, 2022

Convalescent plasma doesn’t help severely ill COVID patients: study

A Vanderbilt clinical trial shows that convalescent plasma, widely given to severely ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the pandemic, does not improve their ability to survive or recover
By Nancy Humphrey