Healthcare Solutions Archive — Page 13 of 13

Whole-body coronal PET scan showing a color-coded scan from the head through the pelvis, with bright tracer uptake in the brain, heart, neck, and lower abdomen.
July 7, 2014

Bringing Cancer to Light: Radiology’s invisible energies play lead role in cancer care

By Leigh MacMillan
A child in a red shirt hugs a plush lion while sitting in a patterned chair.
June 5, 2014

Pet Therapy Research Aimed at Children with Cancer

By Vanderbilt Health News
Deciphering DNA code
December 5, 2013

First-ever study uses EMRs to spot new disease associations

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers and co-authors from four other U.S. institutions from the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network are repurposing genetic data and electronic medical records to perform the first large-scale phenome-wide association study (PheWAS), released today in Nature Biotechnology.

By Craig Boerner
syringe
September 19, 2013

VU testing vaccine against new flu threat

Vanderbilt’s Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit (VTEU) is one of nine U.S. sites funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to test the effectiveness of a vaccine to protect against the H7N9 bird flu that emerged in China this spring.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Pregnant patient lies in a hospital bed while a clinician operates an ultrasound machine; the monitor displays an ultrasound scan.
July 18, 2013

Baby’s life-changing surgery, before birth

By Vanderbilt Health News
Two engineers in a laboratory demonstrate a wearable lower-body exoskeleton; one person uses forearm crutches while the other adjusts the device.
November 1, 2012

Wearable robot helps man walk again

By Vanderbilt Health News