Jessica Pasley Archive — Page 13 of 57

Woman fastening the harness of an infant secured in a rear-facing car seat inside a vehicle.
August 22, 2023

New funds enhance child passenger and bike safety efforts

Safe Kids Worldwide and AAA Auto Club Group Foundation recently awarded funds to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to advance equity in child passenger and bike safety.

Exterior of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, showing the glass entrance canopy, tall modern hospital buildings, colorful children’s hospital sign, and red hospital logo.
August 15, 2023

Pediatric ECMO program receives top recognition from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt’s receives top designation by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization

A healthcare professional uses a stethoscope to examine a baby lying on an examination table.
August 15, 2023

Study finds most infants receiving ICU-level care for RSV had no underlying medical condition

A Vanderbilt study found that most infants admitted to the intensive care or high acuity unit for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections during fall 2022 were previously healthy and born at term.

Smiling healthcare worker wearing glasses, gray scrubs, and a stethoscope, standing in a clinical room with wall-mounted medical supply dispensers behind him.
August 4, 2023

The man at the music festival had been beaten unconscious. Medical assistant Chase Brown may have saved his life.

“If that was my little brother or one of my friends, I would hope someone would help them.”

Colorful 3D cutaway illustration of a spherical virus particle, showing coiled green genetic material inside a layered shell surrounded by blue and magenta surface proteins.
July 24, 2023

Study explores how often children diagnosed with flu experience serious neuropsychiatric side effects

A Vanderbilt study is among the first to quantify how often children diagnosed with flu experience serious neuropsychiatric side effects.

Exterior of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, showing the glass entrance canopy, tall modern hospital buildings, colorful children’s hospital sign, and red hospital logo.
July 19, 2023

Newly approved constipation drug gives pediatricians more options

The first therapy for pediatric functional constipation in patients ages 6 to 17 years old could be a game changer according to gastroenterologists at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.