The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has welcomed 478 new students from 45 states and three countries into its Master of Nursing Science, Doctor of Nurse Practice and Ph.D. degree programs.

The sphere-forming frequency of neuroblastoma cells is a measure of their proliferative capacity and could help guide treatment strategies for neuroblastoma.

The following journal entries are written by Jay Wellons, M.D., chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. In them, he recounts and reflects on Vanderbilt’s Fetal Surgery teams’ five-day trip to Australia to guide a team there through a historic moment.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has received a five-year, $2 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Vanderbilt Emergency Care Research Training Program.

Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome who received growth hormone treatment had cognitive advantages compared to untreated patients.