On a given day, the Vanderbilt Trauma Center may admit multiple gunshot and motor vehicle accident victims. For 27 years, across nearly 100,000 admissions, the Trauma Center’s physicians, nurses and staff have been treating patients arriving from a region covering 80,000 square miles.

These psychologists work with the medical team and families to help support patients during their hospital visits and in coping with and treating their medical diagnosis.

A multicenter trial found that adding budesonide, an inhaled steroid, to albuterol significantly reduced severe asthma attacks compared to using albuterol alone.

Feeding and swallowing problems, known as dysphagia, occur in an estimated 25% to 45% of normally developing children.

For decades no effective preventive options existed, and the tools now exist to prevent severe disease.

The findings give patients and clinicians have another reason to screen for and treat depression in order to prevent potential future heart failure.

Seven months after cancer patient Matt Duckworth's death, the bell pealed loudly at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center infusion clinic as a plaque was unveiled in his honor.