News Releases Archive — Page 42 of 42

Recent and archived press releases with clinical and research news

Three study leaders stand together in a laboratory, with workbenches, equipment, and a microscope visible around them. From left to right: Greg Poffenberger, Chunhua Dai, and John Walker.
February 20, 2020

Post-transplant diabetes may be reversible: study

Post-transplantation diabetes mellitus (PTDM), a common complication of immunosuppressive drugs that are given to prevent transplant rejection, may be reversible and at least partially preventable, researchers at VUMC report.

By Bill Snyder
Illustration of a human torso showing the heart and major blood vessels in red through a translucent rib cage and lungs.
January 16, 2020

VUMC tops in nation for number of heart transplants performed last year

Vanderbilt University Medical Center tied for first place as the busiest heart transplant program by volume in the United States in 2019.

By Matt Batcheldor
Infographic titled “Does expanding Medicaid make people in your state healthier?” It presents Southern Community Cohort Study findings on health-status changes associated with Medicaid expansion, including a color-coded map of expansion and non-expansion states, tables comparing overall, physical, and mental health, and ranked results for non-expansion states.
January 6, 2020

Study links Medicaid expansion and recipients’ health status

In Southern states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, adults experienced lower rates of decline in both physical and mental health, according to research published this month in the journal Health Affairs.

By Jake Lowary
Aerial view of a densely wooded city campus and surrounding downtown buildings, with a large institutional complex in the foreground and low-rise neighborhoods extending to the horizon.
November 13, 2019

Launch of living liver transplant program to increase availability of organs

VUMC is launching a living liver donor transplant program, significantly increasing the number of available organs for life-saving transplants.

By Matt Batcheldor
Black graphic with large white text reading “TRADE OFFS” and smaller text below: “HEALTH CARE. POLICY. PEOPLE.”
October 23, 2019

New podcast seeks to explain health care system’s many mysteries

Everyone wants to fix the massive and complex U.S. health care system. But the truth is there is no silver bullet that will seamlessly reform the industry that consumes one-fifth the world’s largest economy.

By Jake Lowary
Two women sit together in chairs in an indoor seating area, smiling toward the camera; one wears a light blue shirt and the other a pink shirt.
August 1, 2019

VUMC performs its first transplant using rehabilitated lungs

For the first time at Vanderbilt, doctors have performed a transplantation with donated lungs that were rehabilitated using a procedure called ex vivo lung perfusion.

By Matt Batcheldor