William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by reporters at, among other national and local outlets, CNN (some COVID tests still work well past their listed expiration date); The New York Times (new CDC COVID vaccine recommendations); HuffPost (COVID strain XEC); Prevention (side effects of flu shots); USA Today (dangers of the flu and the risk of hospitalization in young and old people); and WSMV Channel 4 News (surge of walking pneumonia cases in Tennessee).
Stacie Dusetzina, PhD, professor of Health Policy, was quoted in an NPR story on how Medicare drug pricing will be affected by the presidential election; Dusetzina was also quoted in story from KFF Health News, picked up by The Washington Post, about a toddler who was bitten by a snake in his back yard whose treatment for the bite came to more than a quarter million dollars.
Shabnam Sarker, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, was quoted in a HuffPost article headlined, “I’m a gastro doctor. Here’s the 1 thing I’d never do if I had stomach pain.”
The National Desk interviewed Erin Calipari, PhD, associate professor of Pharmacology, about how online gambling affects public health.
Becker’s Hospital Review covered the story of Vanderbilt Health Rx Solutions (VHRxS) launching a service to revolutionize the way specialty drug manufacturers and health systems collaborate to enhance patient care and optimize drug launches. Cora Beth Enzor, PharmD,executive director of VHRxS, was quoted in the VUMC press release.
Michael Gibson, MD, PhD, associate professor of Medicine and director of Translational Research for Esophagogastric Cancer at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, was quoted in The Cancer Letter about the recent vote by an expert FDA panel to limit the use of immunotherapies added to chemotherapy for initial treatment of patients with two types of esophago-gastric cancers whose tumors are either metastatic or unresectable.
Cindy Comperry, director of Friends of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, and Tracy Jackson, a mahjong teacher, were on WKRN’s “Local on 2” program on Tuesday discussing Mahjong with Friends, an open-play event and fundraising series.
