News Releases
Recent and archived press releases with clinical and research news
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January 10, 2025
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is consulting the people of Middle Tennessee whether to participate in a trauma research study to investigate treatment strategies for injured children who are bleeding to death
The Massive Transfusion in Children-2, or MATIC-2 trial, will compare resuscitation strategies, in addition to all standard care, in injured children with massive bleeding. -
January 9, 2025
Sledding safety tips from Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Whizzing along on snow and ice is fun, but be careful: Never pull a sled with a motorized vehicle or on streets and parking lots. -
January 3, 2025
AI tested for alerting clinicians of suicide risk at three VUMC clinics
At neurology clinics the system was used to flag 8% of arriving patients as having relatively high risk for suicide attempt in the next 30 days. -
January 2, 2025
2025 New Year’s baby Siora Ray arrives only 12 minutes after midnight
First baby at VWCH: Cash Mitchell; first baby at VTHH: Gwennyth Trinity Grace Freeze-Stele. -
December 17, 2024
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt again named a Leapfrog Top Hospital
Monroe Carell is one of only eight children’s hospitals in the U.S. and the only one in Tennessee to receive a spot on the Top Hospitals list this year. -
December 11, 2024
Vanderbilt joins national effort to develop alphavirus vaccines
The project aims to design computational “tool kits” that can speed development of multi-virus vaccines targeting some of the greatest infectious threats to human health. -
December 10, 2024
Study identifies that higher West African ancestry may contribute to worse breast cancer outcomes
The study found that West African genetic ancestry was associated with shorter disease-free survival, particularly for women with hormone receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative breast cancer.