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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.