Aliquots - Research Briefs

To improve medical management of crisis situations, clinicians should be trained to use cognitive aids – checklists and concise manuals.

Vanderbilt investigators recommend that the presence of tumor deposits in the abdomen be included when staging midgut neuroendocrine tumors.

A new computer algorithm developed at Vanderbilt could save billions of dollars in health care costs by identifying patients at risk for readmission after being hospitalized for heart failure.

A new method will make it possible to study solid tumors and healthy tissues using mass cytometry.

Vanderbilt investigators have discovered how a promising cancer immunotherapy causes brain swelling, findings that could lead to ways to protect brain function while fighting cancers.

A new method developed at Vanderbilt will speed the search for potential therapeutics for diabetes: compounds that stimulate the replication of insulin-producing beta cells.

Vanderbilt investigators have discovered how antidepressant medicines that block serotonin uptake can increase bleeding risk.