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October 22, 2015
Eskind Library receives Southern consortium award
Eskind Biomedical Library has won the Consortium of Southern Biomedical Libraries Distinguished Library Award. -
October 22, 2015
Vanderbilt’s MPH program adds health policy track
Vanderbilt’s Master of Public Health program has added a health policy track, with four new MPH students (class of 2017) joining the track in this initial semester. -
October 22, 2015
CMA pledges $3 million to boost Children’s expansion
The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is receiving significant philanthropic support through a $3 million gift from the Country Music Association (CMA), Vanderbilt University Medical Center leaders, event host Kix Brooks and Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum announced this week. -
October 22, 2015
Study sheds light on side effects of COX-2 drugs
A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists are closer to understanding why COX-2 inhibitors — drugs that relieve arthritis pain and inflammation without the gastrointestinal side effects of other painkillers — cause heart problems in some patients. Now -
October 22, 2015
Neimat: Emotional disturbance is an overlooked symptom of Parkinson’s
Despite benefiting from dramatic improvements in movement after deep brain stimulation surgery, patients with Parkinson’s disease can be inadequately served when physicians and researchers focus only on its motor manifestations, says a Vanderbilt neurosurgeon. -
October 22, 2015
VUMC debuts dedicated tobacco treatment service
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one of only a few academic medical centers in the country with a dedicated hospital-wide tobacco treatment service. -
October 21, 2015
More secure LDAP authentication requires action from application owners
Vanderbilt IT will install a new certificate for LDAP, which is an enterprise service that software applications can use to authenticate users, when the current certificate expires Dec. 5.