Health and Medicine Archive — Page 10 of 178

Portrait of Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, wearing a white medical coat and dark blue tie against a dark background.
April 12, 2023

Research identifies new target that may prevent blood cancer

An international coalition of biomedical researchers co-led by Vanderbilt’s Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, has determined a new way to measure the growth rate of precancerous clones of blood stem cells that one day could help doctors lower their patients’ risk of blood cancer.

Wesley Self, MD, MPH
April 11, 2023

VUMC-led trial shows two investigational drugs are ineffective for treating severe COVID-19

A Vanderbilt-led study evaluating two investigational drugs to treat severe COVID-19 demonstrated that neither drug was effective.

Green sugar cane field with vehicle tracks in the foreground and a cluster of high-rise buildings on the horizon beneath a cloudy sky.
April 11, 2023

COVID on Twitter: town vs. country

A natural language processing analysis of 407 million tweets from May 2020 to January 2022 captures the rural-urban divide regarding COVID-19.

Illustration of an electronic health record on a tablet, showing a medical cross inside a color-coded chart, with icons for blood, microscopy, heart monitoring, test tubes, and DNA analysis connected around it.
April 10, 2023

The problem with the problem list

Algorithms to infer missing problems and suggest that they be added to electronic health records improved problem list completeness, with benefits for clinical care, patient comprehension of health conditions and population health.

Multiple pipettes dispense pink liquid into the wells of a laboratory microplate.
April 6, 2023

A ‘supermere’ method for biomarker discovery

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a method for isolating extracellular vesicles and nanoparticles — a complex transport system involved in health and disease — which will improve biomarker discovery and the identification of therapeutic targets.

VUMC’s new automated biobanking system can store as many as 10 million biospecimens.
April 5, 2023

Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar nominations sought

Nominations for the 2023 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar are invited through April 28.