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LifeFlight Event Medicine also provides coverage at other events such as this summer’s CMA Fest, where Coy Abercrombie, AEMT, left, and Matt Fuson, CCP, were among team members working the downtown Nashville music festival.
June 5, 2026

Vanderbilt LifeFlight offers tips to avoid injury and illness at CMA Fest  

More than 100 Vanderbilt Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians, paramedics, registered nurses, nurse practitioners and doctors will work the four-day festival, putting in an anticipated 1,700 total hours.

June 5, 2026

Research addresses barriers to success for antibody-based therapies for solid head, neck and pancreatic tumors

A new platform allows visualization of drug-tumor interactions in human solid tumors, providing a tool for measuring drug delivery and signaling.

By Evan Dorian
June 5, 2026

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt joins transportation partners to promote e-bike safety

As the popularity of micromobility devices surges, E-Ride Ready aims to help parents better understand the risks associated with e-bikes and e-scooters.

By Jessica Pasley
June 5, 2026

New research: Heart drug may also limit the spread of cancer

For the past 20 years, Vanderbilt Health researchers have been studying ifetroban for its potential to treat conditions ranging from fibrotic lung disease to heart failure in patients with Duchene muscular dystrophy.

By Bill Snyder
June 3, 2026

Study finds link between neighborhood opportunity and mental health-related hospitalizations in youths

Opportunity is measured by the Child Opportunity Index 3.0, a publicly available, multidimensional metric that captures neighborhood conditions that influence children’s health, like education, housing, access to healthy food, environment and societal factors.

By Jake Lowary
June 3, 2026

Study questions standard screening test for amputation risk in veterans

In a review of the electronic health records of more than 223,000 veterans treated at Veterans Health Administration facilities, the researchers found that even modest decreases in the normal ABI correlated with a higher risk of major adverse limb events (MALE) requiring intervention, including amputation and revascularization (treatment to restore blood flow).

By Bill Snyder