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Hotel home for new Vanderbilt Sleep Center

Seeking a more "sleep-friendly" environment, sleep experts at Vanderbilt Medical Center are taking a novel approach for providing sleep studies. In a first for Nashville and Middle Tennessee, Vanderbilt has opened the first hotel-based sleep center in the Marriott at Vanderbilt University. The state-of-the-art sleep laboratory utilizes regular hotel rooms, slightly converted to monitor sleeping patterns.

MEDIA ADVISORY: World-renowned advocate for people with disabilities to speak at Vanderbilt Kennedy Center

Margaret Giannini, M.D., F.A.A.P., a world-renowned advocate for people with disabilities, will speak at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003, at 4 p.m. She is currently the Director of Health and Human Services Office on Disability and has over fifty years of service toward disability advocacy.

Vanderbilt to participate in worldwide test of HIV vaccine

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is participating in worldwide tests of a potential vaccine that can stimulate important immune responses against the virus that causes AIDS.

Protein Profile Predicts Prognosis in Lung Cancer Patients

Researchers have moved a step closer to finding a "molecular fingerprint" of an individual’s cancer.

VUMC to adapt aviation safety training

In an effort to guard patient safety, VUMC is taking a leaf from American aviation, where it’s been shown that human error and the harm it poses can be substantially reduced through training to improve communication among members of the flight crew.

Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital Study Finds Use of Automated External Defibrillators in Children Safe and Effective

A research study performed at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, proving the safety and effectiveness of using automated external defibrillators (AED’s) in children, has helped change American Heart Association guidelines. The study will be published in the August 2003 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine.

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