VUMC News and Communications

June 29, 2007

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Named State’s Only Stand-alone Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center

On July 2, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will begin operating the state’s first pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center at a children’s hospital.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 25, 2007

Senior Day Study Break Video: "Influenza: A Concern for All People (pan demos)"

James Crowe, M.D., is a Vanderbilt professor of pediatrics, microbiology and immunology. Crowe discussed the concerns associated with possible influenza pandemic.
May 15, 2007

New tool to shed light on, improve teen mental health services, education

Can you imagine an archer trying to improve her accuracy by practicing blindfolded, never seeing how close she was to hitting her target, never getting any information to help correct her aim?

By VUMC News and Communications
May 1, 2007

‘Centering Pregnancy’ is innovative approach to pre-natal care

They face nine months of watching their body change. Pregnancy can be an exciting time, but also a scary time.
April 6, 2007

Vanderbilt Study Shows Childhood Immunization with Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Cuts Pneumonia Hospital Admissions in the US

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.
March 22, 2007

Vanderbilt University Medical Center to Conduct Phase III Clinical Trial of Creatine for Parkinson’s Disease

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.
March 21, 2007

VUMC Researchers Study ‘Chemo Fog’

By VUMC News and Communications
March 20, 2007

Vanderbilt scientist reinvents one-room schoolhouse for rural students

Billy G. Hudson, Ph.D., wants to bring back the one-room schoolhouse.
March 19, 2007

VUMC Ranked Among Elite Health Facilities

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.
March 13, 2007

107.5 Radiothon Raises Record Amount for Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital

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.
March 12, 2007

Vanderbilt Investigators testing vaccine to slow malaria’s global march

Infectious diseases researchers at Vanderbilt Medical Center are seeking healthy adults to help test a vaccine for malaria.
March 6, 2007

Vanderbilt Children‘s Hospital study proves nasal spray flu vaccine works better than the shot in younger children

A new study, co-authored by Kathryn Edwards, M.D., chief of the Division Pediatric Clinical Research at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt, suggests that the nasal spray flu vaccine is twice as effective as the flu shot in children 6 months to 5 years of age. The study, entitled "Live attenuated versus Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in Infants and Young Children" was published in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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