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C. difficile bacteria (image courtesy of CDC/Jennifer Oosthuizen)
August 11, 2026

Vanderbilt Health evaluating vaccine for C. difficile for people 65 and older

“C. diff is one of those infections that turns a routine hospital stay or a course of antibiotics into something far more serious, and older adults bear the brunt of it.”

August 5, 2026

Team’s AI agent to speed Alzheimer’s treatment

Patients who qualify for new Alzheimer’s disease therapies often wait weeks before receiving a first infusion.

July 22, 2026

Siyuan Ma receives NIH award for microbiome data analytics

The rapid expansion of human microbiome data calls for new tools and careful handling to yield understanding and reproducible results.

July 9, 2026

Bronchiectasis Day gathering at Langford Auditorium

The Vanderbilt Health NTM and Bronchiectasis Center, a program of the Vanderbilt Lung Institute, launched in 2023. The chronic lung disease is estimated to affect 350,000 to 500,000 adults in the United States.

July 9, 2026

Courtney Schadt returns to VH as Vice Chair of Dermatology

The former Vanderbilt University School of Medicine student and Vanderbilt Health resident spent 15 years on the faculty of the University of Louisville.

July 2, 2026

Team’s prediction task compares GPT-4o with classic machine learning

Large language models have been functionally opaque. Seeking some transparency, a team undertook a comparison with traditional machine learning for predicting which patients would discontinue their home cancer medications.