VUMC News and Communications

October 16, 2012

Volunteers needed for Race for the Cure and Healthy Living Expo

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(Images courtesy of Friends of Children's Hospital)
October 16, 2012

Holiday cards and gifts benefit Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

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October 16, 2012

Vanderbilt University Medical Center observes Breast Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) Day

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October 11, 2012

Center for Medical Weight Loss opens at One Hundred Oaks

When patients come to Vanderbilt’s new Center for Medical Weight Loss, the first thing medical director John Cleek, M.D., wants them to understand is how their bodies use energy.

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October 11, 2012

Walk-in breast mammograms available in TVC year-round

Mammograms can be as easy as TVC.

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October 11, 2012

Netterville to lead otolaryngology-head, neck surgery group

James Netterville, M.D., professor of Otolaryngology and director of the Head and Neck Surgical Oncology Service, has been elected president of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) and its foundation for the 2012-13 term. He assumed his position in September during the annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

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October 11, 2012

Photo: Family Mass Vaccination

More than 600 people turned out for Vanderbilt’s recent Family Mass Vaccination exercise at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks.
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October 11, 2012

Pneumonia vaccine for children to be tested in older adults

Vanderbilt is taking part in a national study to test in older adults the use of a vaccine designed to protect children against a common cause of pneumonia.
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October 11, 2012

Flulapalooza event set for Oct. 17, 18

Vanderbilt University and Medical Center faculty, staff, students and volunteers will once again have the opportunity to be part of a mass flu vaccination plan that last year more than doubled the current world record for the total number of vaccinations given in an eight-hour period.
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October 11, 2012

We Care for Kids Day 2012

Nearly 2,000 people attended the eighth annual We Care for Kids Day on Sunday, which was hosted by the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and its community partners.
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October 8, 2012

Harvard’s Poussaint to deliver Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture

Alvin Poussaint, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and faculty associate dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School, will deliver Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s 11th annual Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 16, in 208 Light Hall.
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October 4, 2012

Forgetting fear key to aiding trauma survivors: Lecturer

If two people experience the same traumatic situation, like an armed bank robbery, for example, they will both likely have an acute fear response: increased heart rate, chills, hot flashes, nausea, abdominal stress, shortness of breath, chest discomfort, sweating and light headedness.
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