Institutions that receive designation status provide high-quality scleroderma care, training and research. VUMC is one of 37 NSF-designated centers in the country and the only one in Tennessee.

Long-term trajectories of irregular sleep durations outside the optimal range (more or less than the healthy duration of seven to nine hours of sleep per night) increased the risk of death from all causes by as much as 29%.

Sarah Tishkoff described her groundbreaking research during a talk titled “African Evolutionary Genomics: Reconstructing Human Evolution and the Genetic Basis of Complex Adaptive Traits.”

He will serve successive one-year terms as AGA vice president, president-elect, president in 2027-2028, and then past president.

One of two commonly used oximetry devices failed to detect low oxygen levels in 7% of patients with the darkest skin tone.

Rathmell has been named chair of the Ben May Department for Cancer Research and director of the Ludwig Center at the University of Chicago, effective July 1.