Year: 2024

June 5, 2024

Anesthesia is in this family’s blood: father, two children all working as nurse anesthetists at Vanderbilt

Brian Reid, CRNA, used to pack Chris and Mary’s lunches before school. Now they all work together in VUMC’s Department of Anesthesiology.

By Erin Wides
June 5, 2024

Can drinking on a long flight hurt your heart health? Are summer colds really worse than winter colds? Why is there more syphilis in Tennessee? And other news stories with VUMC sources

June 5, 2024

A novel astrocyte cell in the retina: study

A full understanding of retinal cell types and their functions could point to novel therapeutic targets for diseases that affect the visual system, such as glaucoma — a leading cause of blindness for people over age 60.

By Leigh MacMillan
Stephen Purcell
June 5, 2024

It’s been 16 years since sweet-spot brain stimulation slowed Parkinson’s progression for Hermitage man

In 2008 at VUMC there were a group of doctors trying something unheard of on a handful of patients who signed up for their study. Half would receive deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in attempt to slow the progression of their early-stage Parkinson’s disease, and the others would not.

By Craig Boerner
June 4, 2024

CollabHub, a new service for working with Microsoft 365 collaboration workspaces, is here

A new service is now available for organizing and managing Microsoft 365 collaboration workspaces such as Teams, SharePoint sites, and shared mailboxes.  This new service is called CollabHub.
Eunyoung Choi, PhD, and James Goldenring, MD, PhD. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
June 4, 2024

Grant funds research for therapies to prevent stomach cancer

The funds will help launch a clinical trial in the U.S. with one of the therapies and compare it with another therapy from an ongoing clinical trial in Japan.

By Tom Wilemon
June 4, 2024

Special Christie Cookie tin celebrates Father’s Day, benefits Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

June 4, 2024

Upcoming changes to inpatient lab ordering

To help reduce unnecessary phlebotomies, decrease nursing workload, and reduce costs, there will no longer be an option to use the “daily” frequency indefinitely for the most commonly ordered labs, such as: CBC (Complete Blood Count), CBC and differential, BMP (Basic Metabolic Panel), magnesium, and phosphorus.
June 4, 2024

Phone numbers to change for Mobile Heartbeat for shared devices

All Mobile Heartbeat users with 615-421-XXXX and 629-248-XXXX numbers will change to 629-297-XXXX on June 11.
June 4, 2024

Registration now open for Southeastern Vision Research Conference

Keynote speaker for the event will be David J. Calkins, PhD, vice chair and director for research at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute and director of the Vanderbilt Vision Research Center.
June 4, 2024

SHARE Center webinar, “No, It Isn’t Just Part of the Job: Responding to Sexual Violation in Health Care” to be June 14

June 4, 2024

Research raises hope for treating potentially lethal blood condition

Roughly 1 in 10 people over age 70 will develop CHIP, an explosive, clonal growth of abnormal blood cells that increases risk of blood cancers and death from cardiovascular, lung and liver disease.
By Bill Snyder
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