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January 9, 2014
Collins memorial set for Jan. 18
A memorial service for Robert D. Collins, M.D., will be held Saturday, Jan. 18, at West End United Methodist Church in Nashville. -
January 9, 2014
UCLA Nursing School dean set for MLK lecture
Courtney H. Lyder, N.D., Sc.D., dean of the UCLA School of Nursing, is set to deliver the keynote address during the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Monday, Jan. 20. -
January 9, 2014
Traveling exhibit traces medicine in Washington’s time
A National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit, “George Washington and Medicine,” is on display in the History of Medicine Room at the Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. -
January 9, 2014
Pioneers of Discovery: Investigator seeks to debug cancer’s ‘bad software’
Beyond genetics — that’s the call Oliver McDonald, M.D., Ph.D., heard during the year between college and medical school he spent in a lab at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. -
January 9, 2014
Cataract surgery helps clear clouds from patient’s vision
Suzy Gore spent the last 10 years watching her eyesight decline. Unable to see the vision chart at her doctor’s office without corrective lenses, tired of halo effects around lights and the challenge of driving at night, Gore decided to undergo laser cataract surgery. -
January 8, 2014
Young children engage in physical activity in short spurts; preschoolers take 11 hours to attain daily exercise levels
Preschool-aged children require the majority of their waking day to achieve their recommended daily physical activity, a Vanderbilt study published in Obesity found. -
January 7, 2014
Vanderbilt study shows suicide risk doesn’t differ in children taking two types of commonly prescribed antidepressants
A new Vanderbilt University Medical Center study shows there is no evidence that the risk of suicide differs with two commonly prescribed antidepressants prescribed to children and adolescents.