Vanderbilt University Medical Center has again been recognized as a “Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the country’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization.

It’s been 20 years since Project PAVE, a Tennessee program providing low-vision evaluations for children, was launched.

Vanderbilt University researchers are closer to understanding the link between obesity, chronic inflammation and type 2 diabetes.

Kenya struggles with a dearth of pediatric anesthesiologists, having a grand total of five. And that’s for a general population of 45 million, some 43 percent of whom are under the age of 15.

Those are some of the words engraved on more than 500 palm-sized stones that Vanderbilt’s Department of Pastoral Care will give to staff during Pastoral Care Week, Oct. 20-25.

Vanderbilt engineers have developed a surgical robot designed to perform brain surgery by entering through the cheek instead of the skull.

Certain antibiotics increase the risk of a congenital heart disorder called patency of the ductus arteriosis.