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February 28, 2008

VCH Study Finds Parents in Denial About Their Children’s Weight Problems

Parents and children in one of the highest-risk groups for health problems related to obesity often fail to recognize the severity of their own weight problems.
February 18, 2008

Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute Opens Lebanon Clinic

The Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute will be taking heart care to the community when it opens a cardiology clinic in Lebanon on Feb. 26.
February 15, 2008

Immune system protein starves ‘staph’ bacteria

One of the ways we defend ourselves against bacterial foes is to “hide” their food, particularly the metals they crave. A multi-disciplinary team led by Vanderbilt University investigators has now discovered that a protein inside certain immune system cells blocks the growth of “staph” bacteria by sopping up manganese and zinc.
February 15, 2008

Schizophrenia drug’s dosage drives success

The Vanderbilt physician who in the late 1980s established the antipsychotic drug clozapine as the gold standard for treating patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia has improved on his own research.
February 14, 2008

Trial expanded for drug therapy first tested at Children’s Hospital

The first large, multi-center trial of a drug developed at Vanderbilt to treat dangerous pulmonary hypertension in children has been launched. The drug, Citrupress, is an intravenous form of the amino acid citrulline, which the body produces naturally and which is also found in watermelon rinds.
February 12, 2008

Love Good For The Heart Says Vanderbilt Cardiologist

If you are in love this Valentine\’s Day, you have more than one reason to celebrate. Being involved in a healthy, loving relationship is good for the heart, says Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute cardiologist, Julie Damp, M.D.
February 11, 2008

Iraqi Girl’s Surgery Complete, Family Hopes for a Full Recovery

Pink fingers, toes and lips. Those were the things 2-year-old Amenah Al-Bayati\'s mother noticed when she saw her daughter for the first time after open heart surgery to repair a serious birth defect.
February 11, 2008

Vanderbilt’s Emergency Department to Test All Adult Patients for HIV

This month, Vanderbilt University Medical Center will begin routine and rapid HIV testing of all adults seen in the Emergency Department unless they "opt out" of the procedure.
By Bill Snyder
February 8, 2008

Melatonin Well-Tolerated Sleep Aid In Children With Autism

Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center researchers are reporting that melatonin, an over-the-counter and relatively inexpensive dietary supplement taken for insomnia and jet lag, shows promise in treating children with autism who have difficulty falling asleep.
February 7, 2008

Eleven-month-old tornado victim heads home

In addition to the loss of his mother, Kerri, 11-month-old Kyson Stowell\'s family also lost everything they owned in the devastating tornado that struck CastilianSprings, Tenn.
February 6, 2008

Vanderbilt-Peruvian partnership addresses silent epidemic of diabetes; Center for the Americas collaboration provides multi-specialty approach

Mobile cameras, high-resolution digital imaging and funding from the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt University are among the key components of a cross-cultural pilot program to prevent vision loss in at-risk Latin Americans.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 4, 2008

$4.5 Million Drug Discovery Grant Awarded to Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $4.5 million grant from Seaside Therapeutics to find potential treatments for fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of mental retardation and the most common genetic cause of autism.
January 29, 2008

Hickman County Heart Attack Victims Benefit from Vanderbilt’s Quick Response Program

When a person suffers a heart attack, every minute counts. The longer the wait before receiving treatment, the more heart muscle is lost, and the greater the chance of permanent damage or death.
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