Beth Malow, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Sleep Center, wrote a piece for The Conversation, in response to a question from an 11-year-old in Oklahoma, about why it feels better to awake spontaneously rather than from an alarm.
William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by reporters at, among other national and local outlets, The Epoch Times (COVID-19 mRNA vaccines do not produce long-lasting immune cells in the bone marrow); ABC News (latest on mpox); and The New York Times (Eight factors that put you at risk of severe flu).
The New York Times reporter Elizabeth Passarella interviewed Bradley Malin, PhD, affiliated faculty in the Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society, for a story about X users uploading X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other medical images to Grok, the platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot, asking for diagnoses.
Healthmagazine reporter Korin Miller interviewed Gaelyn Garrett, MD, senior executive medical director, Vanderbilt Voice Center, for an explainer story on spasmodic dysphonia.
Becker’s Hospital Review reporter Kristin Kuchno interviewed Chief Operating Officer and Vanderbilt University Hospital President Lee Ann Liska, MBA, for a story about how Vanderbilt University Hospital improved its length of stay for patients.
Modern Healthcare reporter Caroline Hudson interviewed Olivia Bryant, senior vice president at Vanderbilt Health Professional Solutions, for a story about the Aegis digital consortium.
The Washington Post reporter Lindsey Bever interviewed David Kent, MD, associate professor of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, for a story about mouth taping to prevent snoring.
WDC News 6 (Washington, D.C.), Social Bites, World Today News, Science Daily, News Medical, Todays Chronic, Head Topics, Medical Xpress, HEAL Security, Respiratory Therapy, Industrial News (UK), Health Reporter News, Archyde, and NewsGram covered the Nature Microbiology study from Eric Skaar, PhD, MPH, the Ernest W. Goodpasture Professor of Pathology and director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, that found dietary zinc deficiency promotes lung infection by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria.
WSMV Channel 4 News reporter Dryden Quigley interviewed Buddy Creech, MD, Edie Carell Johnson Chair in Pediatrics, for a story about pertussis and walking pneumonia.
Sara Martin, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, was quoted in a Self magazine story about how COVID can trigger type 1 diabetes.
