The Food and Drug Administration is examining study data from Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, to determine if new warnings should be placed on common blood pressure medications indicating an increased risk of birth defects for babies whose mothers take these medications during the first trimester of pregnancy.

When 24-year-old Charles Dougherty checks into Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center tomorrow, he'll be preparing for a treatment that has never been performed before in an adult patient in Nashville, and will be only the second case in Tennessee history.

Norman Urmy, who over the past 24 years has led Vanderbilt University Hospital and its clinical enterprise successfully through an ever-changing landscape of health care changes, is stepping down.

In order to validate, or perhaps disprove, the belief that consuming grapefruit is a sensible weight loss strategy, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have launched a two-year, three-arm randomized controlled study to see just how consumption of grapefruit and grapefruit juice affects appetite, dietary intake, weight loss and body composition.

The Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation of Bethesda, Md., and Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tenn., announced that the two organizations had executed an exclusive license for a tuberculosis vaccine.

A Vanderbilt-led team of researchers has developed a new vaccine technology that may prevent the spread of tuberculosis, which kills more than two million people worldwide each year.

Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa, has been selected as the first recipient of the "Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science."