Dolly Parton has released a new version of her song “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” featuring Miley Cyrus and other artists, with proceeds benefitting Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital pediatric cancer research. Media coverage: ABC News, WBIR Channel 10 in Knoxville, Axios Nashville, People.
Vanderbilt was noted as the nation’s largest transplant center after performing record number of solid organ transplants in 2025. Read more. Media coverage: WSMV Channel 4 News, Nashville Post, Nashville Business Journal, WKRN News 2.
WSMV Channel 4 News reporter Danielle Ledbetter interviewed Federica Angel, MD, assistant professor of Internal Medicine, to discuss what happens to the body after one month without alcohol, to go with a story about dry January.
WPLN Nashville Public Radio interviewed Milner Staub, MD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, for a health podcast in connection with KFF Health News to help people know what to do when they start to feel sick, specifically when they should seek care and where they should get it (Urgent Care, PCP, ER). The goal of the segment is to help people avoid ERs if they can during the winter flu and cold season. The piece ran across stations in NPR’s Appalachian Mid-South Network (Knoxville, Louisville, West Virginia) and in Memphis at different days and times.
Newsweekfamily and parenting reporter Daniella Gray, KESQ (Palm Springs), WDHN (Dothan), WYOU (Wilkes Barre-Scranton), WTRF (Wheeling-Steubenville), WKBN (Youngstown), WKRC (Cincinnati), WAFB 9 (Baton Rouge), WKYT (Lexington), Elizabethton Star, the Freesheetreporter George Hopkin, World News Network, KEPR (Yakima), KSCW (Wichita-Hutchinson), WUAB (Cleveland), Genome Web, Bradenton Herald, The State, The Sun News, The Modesto Bee, The Bellingham Herald, The Wichita Eagle, Tri-City Herald, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Sacramento Bee, The Island Packet, Centre Daily Times, CBSNPHL (Philadelphia), WBOC (Salisbury), KTVK (Phoenix), KPHO (Phoenix), KGPE (Fresno-Visalia), WKBD (Detroit), KTAB (Abilene-Sweetwater), WEVV (Evansville), KLAS (Las Vegas), WTRF2 (Wheeling-Steubenville), WCCO (Minneapolis-St. Paul), WIBW (Topeka), KLST (San Angelo), CBSNMINN (Minnesota), KMXB (Minot-Bismark-Dickinson-Glendive), KFDM (Beaumont-Port Arthur), WWJ (Detroit), WLAJ (Lansing), WLNS (Lansing), WWTV (Traverse City-Cadillac), WKRG (Mobile-Pensacola), WNEM (Flint-Saginaw-Bay City), WJZ (Baltimore), WVNS (Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill), KYW (Philadelphia),KCLO (Rapid City), WWMT (Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo-Battle Creek), WCAV(Charlottesville), The Mountain Press, MSN, WGNS Radio, Knowridge, and MedicalResearch.com interviewed Leslie Gaynor, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, for stories about her Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Associationstudy that found super agers were 68% less likely to harbor the gene APOE-ε4, the greatest genetic risk of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, compared to individuals with AD dementia in the same 80+ age group.
Jillian Wilson, HuffPostsenior wellness reporter, interviewed Buddy Creech, MD, director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, for a story about this year’s flu and if the symptoms are worse than last year/previous flu seasons. Creech was also interviewed about the flu for a report on WKRN News 2.
WKRN News 2 interviewed Jamie Pope, MS, RDN, adjunct assistant professor, Nutritional Sciences about the new guidelines rolled out by USDA and HHS.