VUMC News and Communications

May 14, 2020

Dietitian Mills receives Outstanding Preceptor Award

Beth Mills, MS, RD, LDN, CNSC, Dietitian IV, Nutrition Coordinator, was named 2020 Outstanding Preceptor of the Year by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation and the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics.

By VUMC News and Communications

May 13, 2020

Recognition of graduating students takes new approach

On Friday, May 8, Vanderbilt University Schools of Medicine and Nursing and the Basic Sciences celebrated students earning degrees. They will have the opportunity to return to the Vanderbilt University campus in May 2021 for the University-wide official Commencement ceremony.

By Kathy Whitney, Leigh MacMillan and Nancy Wise

The Tennessee National Guard conducted a statewide flyover Tuesday, May 12, to salute medical professionals who are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Two planes — a C-17 from the 164th Airlift Wing out of Memphis and KC-135 from the 134th Refueling Wing out of Knoxville — flew over hospitals in Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Knoxville and many other communities. Both planes flew over Nashville and surrounding counties.

May 13, 2020

A salute from the Tennessee National Guard

The Tennessee National Guard conducted a statewide flyover Tuesday, May 12, to salute medical professionals who are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

By VUMC News and Communications

May 12, 2020

Study finds newborn opioid withdrawal rates show evidence of stabilizing

Rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) have plateaued after 20 years of increasing frequency across the country, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. NAS is a withdrawal syndrome experienced by some opioid-exposed newborns after birth.

By VUMC News and Communications

May 8, 2020

Dr. Jeff Balser on Adapting and Thriving in a New Phase of the Pandemic

As our region begins to reopen businesses, we are entering a new phase of the pandemic. COVID-19 is still with us and remains a major public health challenge. But responsibility is shifting to all of us — as individuals and as institutions — to find new ways to live and work while keeping ourselves, and each other, safe.

By VUMC News and Communications

May 7, 2020

Rheumatoid arthritis patients on Medicare seeing increased out-of-pocket costs for specialty medications

After a sharp drop in out-of-pocket costs between 2010 and 2011, Medicare patients who use specialty biologic medications for rheumatoid arthritis have seen higher out-of-pocket spending for those same drugs because of gradual price increases, a new study finds.