VUMC News and Communications Archive

February 12, 2008

Love Good For The Heart Says Vanderbilt Cardiologist

If you are in love this Valentine\’s Day, you have more than one reason to celebrate. Being involved in a healthy, loving relationship is good for the heart, says Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute cardiologist, Julie Damp, M.D.

February 11, 2008

Iraqi Girl’s Surgery Complete, Family Hopes for a Full Recovery

Pink fingers, toes and lips. Those were the things 2-year-old Amenah Al-Bayati\’s mother noticed when she saw her daughter for the first time after open heart surgery to repair a serious birth defect.

February 8, 2008

Melatonin Well-Tolerated Sleep Aid In Children With Autism

Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center researchers are reporting that melatonin, an over-the-counter and relatively inexpensive dietary supplement taken for insomnia and jet lag, shows promise in treating children with autism who have difficulty falling asleep.

February 7, 2008

Eleven-month-old tornado victim heads home

In addition to the loss of his mother, Kerri, 11-month-old Kyson Stowell\’s family also lost everything they owned in the devastating tornado that struck CastilianSprings, Tenn.

February 6, 2008

Vanderbilt-Peruvian partnership addresses silent epidemic of diabetes; Center for the Americas collaboration provides multi-specialty approach

Mobile cameras, high-resolution digital imaging and funding from the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt University are among the key components of a cross-cultural pilot program to prevent vision loss in at-risk Latin Americans.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 6, 2008

Video: Should states mandate HPV vaccine for public school students?

Watch streaming video of a multi-disciplinary panel taking up the controversial topic of state-required vaccinations for sexually transmitted disease on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School.

February 4, 2008

$4.5 Million Drug Discovery Grant Awarded to Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $4.5 million grant from Seaside Therapeutics to find potential treatments for fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of mental retardation and the most common genetic cause of autism.
January 29, 2008

Hickman County Heart Attack Victims Benefit from Vanderbilt’s Quick Response Program

When a person suffers a heart attack, every minute counts. The longer the wait before receiving treatment, the more heart muscle is lost, and the greater the chance of permanent damage or death.
January 28, 2008

Ambassador of Iraq Visits Amenah at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

The Ambassador of Iraq to the United States, Samir Sumaidaie, took a break from business in Knoxville to come to Nashville Sunday to visit Amenah, the 2-year-old Iraqi girl who has come to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children\'s Hospital at Vanderbilt for surgery to correct a life-threatening heart defect. Sumaidaie is from Haditha, Iraq, the hometown of Amenah and her family.
January 26, 2008

Iraqi toddler arrives at Children’s Hospital with life-threatening heart defect

A team of pediatric heart specialists at the Monroe Carell Jr. Childrenπs Hospital at Vanderbilt continues to assess the condition of a 2-year-old Iraqi girl named Amenah (pronounced Ahh -min ñUh). The girl was flown to Nashville from Iraq on Wednesday in hopes of receiving lifesaving surgery.
January 25, 2008

State approves Children’s Hospital expansion

The Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency this week approved the Certificate of Need for expansion of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children\'s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
January 17, 2008

Pietenpol Chosen to Lead Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Jennifer Pietenpol, Ph.D., Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and professor of Biochemistry, has been named director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.