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July 15, 2022

‘DNA’ podcast goes live: July 20 Twitter Spaces chat about mental health, teens

Season 3 of the “Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action” podcast series will kick off with a live Twitter Spaces chat about mental health, featuring several teens from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee.

By Holly Fletcher
June 23, 2022

Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital becomes county’s first trauma center

Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital (VWCH) has received approval as a state-verified provisional Level III Trauma Center, making it the first and only hospital able to provide this higher level of care in Wilson County.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 9, 2022

Filling multiple opioid prescriptions after childbirth associated with maternal death risk

In a new study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, women who filled two or more prescriptions for opioids after childbirth faced a 46% greater risk of death than women who did not.

By Jake Lowary
June 8, 2022

Research probes cause of acute flaccid myelitis in children

Research that began at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has found evidence that a viral infection followed by a “robust” immune response is the cause of a polio-like paralyzing illness in children called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM).

By Bill Snyder
June 2, 2022

Study explores positioning options to improve COVID mortality

Vanderbilt researchers found that prone positioning of patients with COVID-19-related hypoxemia not on mechanical ventilation offered no observed clinical benefit among these patients.

By Nancy Humphrey
May 27, 2022

Latest meeting of MyWorkday Change Network covers crucial “Supervisory Org” structure

By Madison Agee
May 24, 2022

Vanderbilt Center for Women’s Health merges with Women’s Health Center of Lebanon

Vanderbilt Center for Women’s Health will merge with Women’s Health Center of Lebanon (WHCL) on May 28, expanding access to care.
By Emily Stembridge
April 21, 2022

VUMC a national leader in physician-scientist training

Physician-scientists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center were well represented at the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), Association of American Physicians (AAP) and the American Physician-Scientist Association.
By Bill Snyder
April 14, 2022

VUMC research team receives $1 million grant from AHA to study impact of long-COVID on heart

A research team led by Cyndya Shibao, MD, MSCI, associate professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has received a three-year, $1-million grant from the American Heart Association to study long-term effects of COVID-19 on the heart and cardiovascular system.
By Bill Snyder
April 13, 2022

Additional COVID vaccine helps protect transplant patients

Additional booster doses of vaccine against COVID-19 are particularly important for those who are immunosuppressed, namely those who have had solid organ transplants, a new study shows.
By Nancy Humphrey
February 28, 2022

 SHARE Center presentation, “Equitable and empowered environments:  Addressing workplace sexual harassment at VUMC,” to be March 10

By VUMC News and Communications
February 9, 2022

Cell and Developmental Biology seminar, “Compromised nuclear envelope integrity drives tumor cell invasion,” is Feb. 14

By VUMC News and Communications
December 22, 2021

Virtual Lunch and Learn about health coaching at Vanderbilt to be Jan. 12

By VUMC News and Communications
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