Routine infant immunization with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) has caused a 39 percent fall in all-cause pneumonia hospital admission rates for American children under 2, according to an article published in this week's edition of The Lancet.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will participate in a large-scale national clinical trial to learn if the nutritional supplement creatine can slow the progression of Parkinson's disease.

Billy G. Hudson, Ph.D., wants to bring back the one-room schoolhouse.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been recognized for the eighth consecutive year as one of the top 100 hospitals in the country, in a study by Solucient Institute.

Last week's 107.5 River of Hope Radiothon was the most successful radio-based fund-raiser in the history of Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.