Nancy Humphrey
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March 10, 2022
ICU study confirms safety of delabeling penicillin allergies
A Vanderbilt study shows that physicians can safely identify and disprove low-risk penicillin allergies using an oral amoxicillin challenge in consenting patients, even those in the intensive care unit who are recovering from critical illness. -
March 9, 2022
VUMC celebrates National Patient Safety Awareness Week
Vanderbilt University Medical Center will celebrate National Patient Safety Awareness Week March 13-19 with a series of events designed to spread awareness for patient safety throughout the Medical Center campus and its regional hospitals. -
March 9, 2022
VUMC observes National Patient Safety Awareness Week
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March 1, 2022
Health Policy’s Sheelah Blankenship’s family named “Ultimate Host Family” by cultural exchange agency
The program, overseen by the U.S. State Department, allows young adults from other countries to live with an American family as an au pair -
January 20, 2022
Vanderbilt mourns loss of tireless philanthropist Dugas
Laura Jo Turner Dugas, who along with her brothers Cal Jr. and Steve Turner and their families, have been longtime supporters of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, died on Dec. 26, 2021. She was 84. -
January 12, 2022
Excessive screen time impacting health of children in many ways
Vanderbilt physicians are seeing an increasing trend of health conditions in children with chronic diseases like diabetes, directly or indirectly related to excessive screen time.