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Everyday Health interviewed Kathryn Lindley, MD, Samuel S. Riven Director, Women’s Heart Center, for a story about a new study that found women who consistently met physical activity guidelines throughout middle age had half the risk of dying from any cause compared to women who remained inactive.
The Tennessean reporter Beth Warren covered the Vanderbilt Health News story from Bill Snyder about a Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Advancesstudy that found excessive consumption of dietary sodium (salt) is a significant, independent risk factor for new-onset heart failure. The study was led by Deepak Gupta, MD, associate professor of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Translational and Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center, and Leonie Dupuis, MD, a third-year resident physician in internal medicine at Vanderbilt Health. The story was also picked up by by The Daily Mail, MSN, Life Technology and others.
NBC News reporter Erika Edwards interviewed Kathryn Edwards, MD, professor of Pediatrics, emerita, for a story about the bacterial disease Hib returning as vaccination rates fall.
Women’s Health interviewed Amalia Peterson, MD, assistant professor of Neurology, a story about research that found people who start exercising get a spike in brain-derived neurotrophic factor. The story has been picked up by Yahoo Health and AOL, among others.
WSMV Channel 4 News reporter Diana Rocco interviewed Jo Ellen Wilson, MD, PhD, MPH, associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the study’s principal investigator, for a story about the ABATE study testing a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome.
Kelsey Gastineau, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Pediatrics, Hospital Medicine at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, was interviewed by WSMV Channel 4 News about firearm safety for children in the wake of the unintentional firearm death of a 6 year old Nashville boy. Parts of her interview were used in at least two different stories here and here.
Everyday Health reporter Korin Miller interviewed Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, professor of Medicine, Pediatrics & Surgery, and medical director of Obesity Medicine, for a story about the latest clinical trial results for retatrutide, which found the triple agonist medication had marked reductions in A1C and weight in patients. Participants taking retatrutide achieved average A1C reductions of up to 2.0%, and lost up to an average of 36.6 lbs (16.8%).
The Washington Post reporter Kathleen Felton interviewed Grace Koo, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, for a story about controlling allergy symptoms in spring
