Leigh MacMillan Archive — Page 8 of 83
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October 2, 2024
VUMC awarded PCORI funding to improve antibiotic prescribing for childhood respiratory infections
The pediatric outpatient antibiotic stewardship project is the first implementation project funded at VUMC as part of the PCORI Health Systems Implementation Initiative, which aims to reduce the estimated 17-year gap between evidence publication and clinical application. -
September 27, 2024
Distant relatedness in biobanks harnessed to identify undiagnosed genetic disease
VUMC researchers have developed a genetic method that clusters distantly related people to find rare variants that were present in a common ancestor. -
September 26, 2024
Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital awarded four stars by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS assigns star ratings to U.S. hospitals each year based on 46 quality measures. The more stars a hospital receives, the better its performance is, based on the metrics CMS assesses. -
September 23, 2024
Nobel laureate James Rothman to present on synaptic neurotransmission
Rothman, the Sterling Professor of Cell Biology at Yale University, shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.” -
September 20, 2024
Melinda Aldrich elected to genetics society board of directors
Aldrich uses population-based cohorts and biobanks to investigate lung cancer; her research informed guidelines for lung cancer screening. -
September 20, 2024
Fever drives enhanced activity, mitochondrial damage in immune cells
The mechanistic understanding of how cells respond to heat could explain how chronic inflammation contributes to the development of cancer.