VUMC News and Communications

November 8, 2012

Commonly prescribed oral diabetes drug offers cardiac benefits

Patients prescribed the diabetes drug metformin have a lower risk for heart attack, stroke and death than patients taking sulfonylurea drugs.

By VUMC News and Communications
November 6, 2012

Bacterial signals in sarcoidosis

Study adds evidence for infectious agents’ role in sarcoidosis, an inflammatory condition that can lead to respiratory failure and death.

By VUMC News and Communications
Will Hoge
November 2, 2012

Will Hoge gives back in concert to benefit VUMC Trauma

By VUMC News and Communications
November 2, 2012

Toxin provides endometriosis clues

Environmental toxins may contribute to endometriosis-related infertility by disrupting endometrial response to progesterone.

By VUMC News and Communications
November 1, 2012

Peter Max exhibition to benefit Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

By VUMC News and Communications
November 1, 2012

Wearable robot helps man walk again

By VUMC News and Communications
November 1, 2012

Rounds: A message from the Vice Chancellor

Even though I’ve spent the majority of my career at Vanderbilt, I still look up when I hear the sound of LifeFlight approaching. And I still notice when injured patients are chronicled in newscasts nearly every night with the steady refrain “taken to Vanderbilt.”
By VUMC News and Communications
November 1, 2012

Photo: Rascal Flatts

Country music group Rascal Flatts hosted a special Halloween performance for patients and their families at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt this week.
By VUMC News and Communications
November 1, 2012

Gratitude for mentoring leads to creation of new scholarship

The spirit of mentorship and support shown to one potential medical student decades ago has come full circle in a bequest to establish a scholarship at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 31, 2012

Green tea found to reduce rate of some GI cancers

Green tea may lower risk of some digestive cancers.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 30, 2012

Vanderbilt burn doctors treat more patients during cold-weather months, urge caution with home heating

By VUMC News and Communications
October 29, 2012

Cancer research and education agreement announced between Baptist Memorial Health Care and Vanderbilt University

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