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July 3, 2006

Vermund Tapped For Leadership Role in Newly Restructured National HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks

Sten H. Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., the director of The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and a Pediatric Infectious Disease research epidemiologist at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has been selected as the primary investigator to lead the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) for the newly restructured HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 27, 2006

Doctors at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital Urge Swimming Pool Safety

After treating five children for near-drowning in the last two weeks, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital experts are asking parents to review safety tips. Tom Abramo, M.D., director of the Emergency Department at Vanderbilt Children’s, says most of the incidents have involved children under the age of 5.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 15, 2006

President Bush Nominates VUSN’s Conway-Welch to the Nation’s Federal Health Sciences University

President George W. Bush recently announced his intention to nominate Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., as a member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 8, 2006

First Trimester Use of ACE Inhibitors Implicated in Birth Defects

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.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 8, 2006

First Adult Cancer Patient in Nashville to Receive Stem Cell Transplant from Umbilical Cord Blood at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

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.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 26, 2006

VUMC’s Executive Vice President Norman Urmy to Retire

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.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 11, 2006

Effectiveness of Grapefruit Diet Studied at Vanderbilt Medical Center

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.
By VUMC News and Communications
May 4, 2006

Aeras and Vanderbilt University Announce License Deal for New TB Vaccine

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.
By Bill Snyder
May 4, 2006

Vanderbilt develops new 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.
By Bill Snyder
April 28, 2006

Nancy Andreasen Receives First Annual Vanderbilt Prize

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."
By VUMC News and Communications
April 25, 2006

Vanderbilt Medical Center Opposes Repeal of State’s Motorcycle Helmet Law

Tennessee's Legislature is again seriously considering a repeal of the state's mandatory motorcycle helmet law for adults.
By VUMC News and Communications
April 21, 2006

Vanderbilt Celebrates National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week

Vanderbilt Medical Center laboratories will be joining the many laboratories across the country that observe and celebrate National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week (NMLPW).
By VUMC News and Communications
April 18, 2006

Nationwide Breast Cancer Prevention Trial Resuts

Results of Nationwide Breast Cancer Prevention Trial Show Osteoporosis Drug Raloxifene is as Effective as Tamoxifen in Preventing Invasive Breast Cancer; Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is Only Regional Participant
By VUMC News and Communications
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