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Coffee and tea research was in the news recently, as Men’s Health magazine interviewed Peter Martin, MD, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, for a story about research that found coffee may help lower stress levels, but only if you stick within two to three cups a day; and Food and Winereporter Korin Miller interviewed Amalia Peterson, MD, assistant professor of Neurology, for a story about research that found that moderate consumption of caffeinated coffee or tea was linked to an 18% lower risk of dementia and better cognitive performance over time.
William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by several news outlets about public health issues, including Everyday Health (diarrhea-causing germs on the rise); Prevention (the seven most common norovirus symptoms); Reuters (COVID shots and other vaccines in limbo after recent federal action); Infectious Disease Special Edition (meningitis mortality); and ABC News (New World screwworm).
WPLN Nashville Public Radio “This Is Nashville” host Blake Farmer interviewed Billy Hudson, PhD, director of the Vanderbilt Center for Matrix Biology and co-founder of the Aspirnaut program, for a profile story about his life, career and Aspirnauts.
Healthlineinterviewed Sylvia Groth, MD, executive medical director of the Department of Ophthalmology, for a story about the FDA recall of 3 million bottles of eye drops.
WTVF News Channel 5 reporter Nikki Hauser interviewed Colin Walsh, MD, associate professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine and Psychiatry, for a story on how patients interact with AI chatbots for medical concerns.
Healthline interviewed Augusto Dulanto Chiang, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, for a story about a patient in Norway who has achieved remission from HIV after a stem cell transplant.
SurvivorNet editor-at-large Jeffrey Molter interviewed Ronald Alvarez, MD, chairman and clinical service chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, for a story about the BEHOLD-1 ovarian cancer study.
Carlos Grijalva, MD, MPH, professor of Health Policy, participated in a Q&A with the Pharmacy Times on his paper looking at community-acquired pneumonia.
Ivanhoe Broadcast News distributed a story to its local television affiliates about protecting gut health that quotes Mariana Byndloss, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and co-director of the Vanderbilt Microbiome Innovation Center.
WKRN Channel 2 News interviewed Cosby Stone, MD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, about how ticks spread disease.
