Vanderbilt Health News Archive — Page 328 of 390

Older woman with white hair wearing a white blouse sits behind a decorated birthday cake in a bright indoor setting.
August 9, 2012

Photo: Birthday wishes

By Vanderbilt Health News
A child wearing a red firefighter helmet holds a spraying fire hose with assistance from two adults on a grassy field; an orange training cone is in the foreground.
August 2, 2012

Camp Hope helps young burn patients on road to recovery

Spirits and self confidence soared as thirty former patients of the Vanderbilt Burn Center gathered July 25-28 for Camp Hope, a free, annual event for burn survivors ages 6 to 16.

By Vanderbilt Health News
A gray-haired researcher in a white lab coat and striped tie sits beside a microscope and computer monitor displaying a tissue image.
August 2, 2012

Arteaga named to Komen scientific advisory board

Carlos Arteaga, M.D., associate director for Clinical Research and director of the Breast Cancer Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been named to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

By Vanderbilt Health News
A man wearing glasses and a white laboratory coat stands in a research laboratory; the coat is embroidered “Mohamed Hassanein, MD” and “Allergy/Pulmonary.”
August 2, 2012

VICC’s Hassanein lands lung cancer research grant

Mohamed Hassanein, Ph.D., research instructor in Pulmonary Medicine, has received a Career Development Award from the LUNGevity Foundation to work on the development of noninvasive tests to help diagnose lung cancer.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Five smiling students stand indoors, holding open white medical coats to show their clothing underneath. An escalator and other people are visible in the background.
August 2, 2012

VUSM’s class of 2016 gets a jump on medical studies

July 23 was the first day of class for the VUSM class of 2016, a little more than a week earlier than the start of last year’s classes.

By Vanderbilt Health News
August 2, 2012

Proteins may point way to new prostate cancer drug targets

Two proteins that act in opposing directions – one that promotes cancer and one that suppresses cancer — regulate the same set of genes in prostate cancer, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have found.

By Vanderbilt Health News