Providing emergency medical coverage at special events can be challenging. But a recent downtown-wide New Year’s Eve celebration required the support equivalent to a mini-disaster response.

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has launched a new lung cancer screening program to provide low-dose CT scans for patients at high risk for the deadly disease. Current or former smokers ages 55 to 74 who have a history of 30 or more pack years of smoking are eligible for the scans.

The Pharmacology laboratory on the 4th floor of PRB, under the direction of H. Alex Brown, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology, was the winner of the VUMC Go Green for the Holidays energy conservation contest.

A Vanderbilt study is investigating whether therapy dogs can have a positive effect on children undergoing chemotherapy.

With concerns mounting as children train harder, compete more frequently and specialize in a single sport earlier, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine has released a position statement that provides guidance to health providers who care for young athletes.