VUMC News and Communications
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October 11, 2018
Ready for the season
Nashville Predators players Pekka Rinne, left, and Ryan Johansen talk with Samantha Mortagua during a recent visit with patients and families at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Members of the team stopped by the hospital the day before their home opener at Bridgestone Arena against the Calgary Flames. -
October 4, 2018
Talking bioethics
Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, spoke about the role of bioethics in precision medicine during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. -
October 3, 2018
VUSN honored for efforts to recruit, retain men in nursing
The American Association for Men in Nursing has named Vanderbilt University School of Nursing a Best School of Nursing by the American Association of Men in Nursing (AAMN). The honor recognizes a school for significant efforts in recruiting and retaining men in the nursing profession. -
October 1, 2018
Cytokine-cognition connection
Targeting the immune system may provide a new avenue for therapeutic intervention in psychiatric diseases characterized by motivational and cognitive deficits. -
September 27, 2018
Stretch, inflammation and hypertension
New research sheds light on how changes in blood vessel forces enhance immune cell activation and promote hypertension. -
September 27, 2018
Fat tissue’s “iron sink”
Alyssa Hasty and colleagues demonstrated that immune cells called macrophages act in fat tissue to store iron and prevent iron toxicity.