Emergency medical personnel from all over Middle Tennessee will compete in a first-ever "combat challenge" to be held on April 22 at Henry Horton State Park in Chapel Hill, Tenn.

Vanderbilt Medical Group-Spring Hill is pleased to announce the opening of its new Primary Care Practice, located at 3098 Campbell Station Pkwy. in Spring Hill, Tenn, on Monday, March 20.

The quick actions of an athletic trainer and the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) saved the life of Vanderbilt basketball student-athlete Davis Nwankwo (Nah-WONK-wo), said the team physician.

A team of researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has been awarded $1.5 million from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

As tensions rise over the growing possibility of an avian flu pandemic, this week Infectious Diseases researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are launching a new trial of an avian flu vaccine.

With a "bold goal" to reinvest $300 million annually by 2016, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Harry Jacobson, M.D., told an auditorium packed with faculty, staff and students that he envisions Vanderbilt University Medical Center will be a far different place when it meets its ambitious 10-year goals.