Longtime treatment for IPF ineffective and even dangerous.

The list of aging-associated proteins known to be involved in cancer is growing longer, according to research by investigators at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the National Institutes of Health.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center doctors announced today they will begin screening patients who take commonly prescribed statin drugs for a rare genetic variation that can increase risks for side effects from these drugs such as muscle aches, kidney damage and even death.

Study suggests a new therapeutic target in ulcerative colitis.

A growth factor may help grow transplantation-quality pancreas cells for treating diabetes.

Bipolar depression and schizophrenia share patterns of changes in neurons that regulate information flow, new research shows.

Each year millions of Americans return to the hospital within 30 days of their previous discharge. Although many readmissions could be preventable, most statistical models for predicting them "perform poorly," according to researchers at Vanderbilt and the Oregon Health and Science University and their affiliated VA medical centers.