Vanderbilt Health News Archive — Page 242 of 390

Close-up of a human eye with a sharply focused black pupil and a rainbow spectrum reflected across the iris; the surrounding face is blurred and grayscale.
March 2, 2015

Results challenge conventional wisdom about where the brain begins processing visual information

A new brain imaging study challenges conventional wisdom about how and where in the brain the processing of visual orientation information first occurs.

Lab photo
February 26, 2015

Paralyzed by accident, grad student engineers his future with exoskeleton

Andrew Ekelem, who has used a wheelchair since a college snowboarding accident, brings an invaluable perspective to the lab of mechanical engineer Michael Goldfarb.

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February 26, 2015

Cancer survival improvements vary by age, race

Improvements in cancer diagnosis and treatment have led to longer survival for most cancer patients in the United States. However, the improvement in survival was substantially greater among younger patients and those who are white in most of the cancers studied, according to new research by Vanderbilt University investigators.

February 26, 2015

National Academies of Practice honors VUSN’s Kim, Parish

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing faculty members Jennifer Kim, DNP, and Abby Parish, DNP, were recently elected as Distinguished Practitioners and Fellows of the National Academies of Practice (NAP).

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a gray-haired man in a white lab coat and striped tie, seated in a laboratory with scientific equipment behind him.
February 26, 2015

VUMC’s Arteaga named a fellow of the AACR Academy

Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D., director of the Center for Cancer Targeted Therapies and director of the Breast Cancer Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been named a fellow of the AACR Academy.

Four smiling adults pose together indoors; the man in a blue polo stands between three women wearing Marino Autism Research Institute shirts.
February 26, 2015

Photo: Autism team effort

The Clinical Neuroscience Scholars program, supported by the Marino Foundation and the Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation, pairs students with both a basic science mentor to support their dissertation research and a clinical mentor to shadow.