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Axios covered the Vanderbilt Health News story about a study from Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI, professor of Medicine that found adding as little as 1,700 to 5,500 steps per day can offset the risk of a list of chronic diseases — including obesity, diabetes and sleep apnea. The story was also picked up by MSN and others.
Self magazine interviewed Aaron Brinen, PsyD, assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, for a story about research that shows being engaged in a conversation is more important than the topic.
The loneliness study from Katherine Schafer, PhD, MS, MEd, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics, was picked up by MSN, NewsBreak, Life Technology,and others. The findings, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, suggest that reducing loneliness could “arrest some of the progression from anxiety and depressive symptoms toward suicidal ideation,” and thus help prevent suicide, which claims more than 48,000 lives in the United States every year.
The New York Times Magazine reporter Katie Engelhart mentioned the research of Yelena Bodien, PhD, assistant professor of Surgery, in an article about new research upending what was previously thought about the consciousness of vegetative patients.
William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by several news outlets about public health issues, including Food & Wine (vaccine beer); WTVC News 9 in Chattanooga (a new strain of tuberculosis); and The Hill (respiratory virus season lingering longer than normal this year).
Grace Koo, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, was quoted in a Washington Post story (picked up by the Detroit News, among others), about how to control allergy symptoms all season long.
