“The Pulse” reporter Alan Yu interviewed Yelena Bodien, PhD, investigator in the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship (CIBS) Center and assistant professor in the Division of Acute Care Surgery, for an audio feature story about research and treatment for patients with disorders of consciousness. “The Pulse” is a national science show and podcast from the public radio station WHYY in Philadelphia.
William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by reporters at, among other national and local outlets, Slate (who needs a measles booster?); The New York Times (vitamin A as a measles remedy); The New York Times (again) (lifetime immunity for people who have had measles); Healio (the waning of this year’s flu season); and WKRN News 2 (the health benefits of fluoride in drinking water).
Joseph Gigante, MD, professor of Pediatrics, has also been using news media to educate the public about measles. Among the outlets he has spoken to recently are WSMV Channel 4 News and WTVF News Channel 5. And Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, spoke about measles with WTVF News Channel 5, WSMV Channel 4 News and WKRN News 2.
NBC News national reporter Linda Carroll interviewed Aaron Brinen, PsyD, assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, for a story about a JAMA Psychiatrystudy showing prescription stimulant misuse, especially in women 35-64.
Yahoo News reporter Korin Miller interviewed Beth Malow, MD, director, Vanderbilt Sleep Center, for a story about how bad it is to go to bed after midnight, plus what you can do to push your bedtime up earlier.
WTVF News Channel 5 interviewed Cathy Eng, MD, David H. Johnson Endowed Chair in Surgical and Medical Oncology at the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, for a story about the screening age for colorectal cancer being moved from 50 down to 45 years old.
Morning Star, Drug Discovery Online and Washington Daily News are among several outlets covering the news from Nashville Biosciences LLC (NashBio), a leading clinical and genomic data company and wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and global DNA sequencing giant Illumina Inc., that 250,000 whole genomes have been sequenced for the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD) initiative. Insights from the AGD database are being leveraged to accelerate drug target discovery, therapeutic research and clinical development.
A Nashville woman was on a trip to Jamaica when she was injured while swimming with dolphins at a popular attraction. When she returned home she was hospitalized at VUH, and the story of the spring break aquatic mammal incident was featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”