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June 7, 2018

Enzyme protects against obesity-related heart disease

Vanderbilt scientists have discovered that a certain enzyme plays a crucial role in preventing obesity-related cardiac dysfunction.

By Sanjay Mishra
June 7, 2018

Environmental Health and Safety’s Wheaton retires

If you chat with Bob Wheaton, executive director of Vanderbilt Environmental Health and Safety, for a few minutes, it quickly becomes clear he’s not from around here.

By Kathy Whitney
June 7, 2018

New center to explore best trauma care practices

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, through the Institute for Medicine and Public Health (IMPH), Center for Health Services Research and the Department of Emergency Medicine, has established a new Center for Emergency Care Research and Innovation (CERI) to help determine the best care for patients who experience trauma or require emergency services — even before they get to the hospital.

By Bill Snyder
June 7, 2018

DOD study to explore guidelines for ankle, knee surgery patients

Although military personnel often suffer ankle and knee fractures requiring surgery, there’s no definitive consensus on when they should stop using crutches and start putting weight on their injured limbs again.

By Tom Wilemon
June 7, 2018

Student-run clinics may reduce hospital utilization

Student-run free health clinics, a hallmark of most medical schools across the country, not only provide valuable clinical experience for the students who volunteer there, but may actually reduce hospital utilization by the patients in their care, according to a Vanderbilt study recently published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

By Kathy Whitney
June 7, 2018

Raising awareness

Former NFL quarterback and two-time Pro Bowler Marc Bulger recently visited with patients and families at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 7, 2018

Farmers’ Market on VUMC plaza every Thursday through October

By Wayne Wood
June 7, 2018

Center for Vulvar and Vaginal Disorders adds treatment options

Two years ago, Melinda New, MD, associate professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, and nurse practitioner Lisa Milam, MSN, WHMP, opened a specialized clinic called the Center for Vulvar and Vaginal Disorders.
By Jessica Pasley
June 7, 2018

Breadth, depth of commitment define Junior League’s support

On a Thursday afternoon at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, volunteer Gena Moran pops into a patient room on the fifth floor to invite a young patient and her family to participate in a bingo game about to begin in the hospital’s butterfly garden.
By Jill Clendening
June 7, 2018

New inpatient unit at Medical Center East debuts June 19

The conversion of the eighth floor of Medical Center East (MCE)-North Tower on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center campus from outpatient space to inpatient beds is now complete and the new unit is scheduled to open on Tuesday, June 19.
By Wayne Wood
June 7, 2018

VUMC team devises ‘novel’ idea to help improve hypertension education

Reading a comic book may improve the health of hypertension patients, or at least that’s the goal of a new study at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
By Kristin Smart
June 7, 2018

New PET/CT scanner set to expand research opportunities

A research-dedicated PET/CT scanner installed recently in the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS) will expand opportunities for Vanderbilt researchers to conduct studies of a wide range of disorders, from cancer to Alzheimer’s disease.
By Bill Snyder
June 6, 2018

Pedestrian bridge to close for summer months

The pedestrian bridge and walkway at 21st Avenue South and Edgehill Avenue will undergo routine maintenance this summer.
By VUMC News and Communications
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