At present, 44 countries, including the European Union, have banned or are phasing out atrazine due to concern for its negative effects on human health.

The new site is designed to provide easier access to information for members of the VUMC community, and for millions of other visitors to the site each year.

The 'Top 9 Food Challenge' spotlights the challenge that 33 million Americans with food allergies have when choosing what to eat.

An analysis of the genomes of more than 1 million people of European ancestry, conducted by several of the world’s leading genomic centers, including Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has identified more than 2,000 independent genetic signals for blood pressure.

A Vanderbilt study found that Black and white people who earned less than $15,000 a year died, on average, more than 10 years earlier than those whose annual income exceeded $50,000.

An anticancer drug blunted atherosclerosis progression — and even made plaques shrink — in a mouse model of the disease, opening new opportunities for preventing and treating this leading cause of death.

A new tool to identify infants most at risk for severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) illness could aid pediatricians in prioritizing children under 1 to receive a preventive medication before RSV season (October-April).