December 12, 2024

How to hang holiday lights without Griswolding into the ER; hand sanitizer doesn’t kill norovirus but you can avoid it anyway; in praise of hot water bottles; plus other news stories with VUMC sources

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WKRN News 2 interviewed Ashley Panas, MD, Chief Flight Physician and Associate Medical Director of Vanderbilt LifeFlight, for a story about how to avoid injuries while hanging holiday lights.

Yahoo! News reporter Korin Miller interviewed Caityln Mooney, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Sports Medicine, for a story in praise of hot water bottles, especially how they may help with health issues.

William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by reporters at, among other national and local outlets, CBS News (testing unpasteurized milk for bird flu); ABC News (mysterious illness kills 79 people in Congo): Fortune (norovirus sickens millions and hand sanitizer doesn’t kill it); WSMV Channel 4 News (flu cases increase and the importance of vaccinations); and WKRN News 2 (flu vaccinations and bird flu).

Eva Parker, MD, assistant professor of Dermatology, was quoted in a Women’s Health story about how wildfires, extreme weather, rising temperatures and other effects of climate change can affect skin health.

VeryWell Health reporter Gillian Mohney interviewed Eric Bowman, MD, associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the division of Sports Medicine, for a story about kettlebell training for older adults.

Nature published a tribute article from Corey Nason Reese, Jeff Reese and Jeffrey Whitsett on Midred Stahlman, MD, professor of Pediatrics and professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, who died earlier this year.  

Corey Bolton, PsyD, assistant professor of Medicine, and Ray Romano, PhD, MPH, MSN, RN, a family nurse practitioner in Neurology, appeared on WTVF News Channel 5’s show “Openline” to discuss Alzheimer’s disease.

JAMA Medical News reporter Kate Ruder interviewed Paul Harris, PhD, director of the VUMC Office of Research Informatics, for a story about decentralized clinical trials, including upcoming trials at Walgreens pharmacies.

Healthcare Purchasing News published a story about Vanderbilt Health joining Aegis Ventures 11-system strategic digital consortium to build, invest in and deploy new technologies that improve medical care and outcomes.