Health and Medicine

Vanderbilt investigators have identified how two key components of cancer's invasive "switch" — the series of signaling events that turn on a tumor cell’s invasive behavior — work together.

Vanderbilt University is dramatically expanding its health care and education activities in the southern African nation of Zambia.

“Orphan” enzyme may play role in cancer growth, new research suggests.

A new study conducted to review symptoms and neurocognitive findings in male and female high school soccer players revealed no gender-related differences.

Women who experience early menopause are more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than women whose menopause occurs at a later age, according to a new study by Melissa Wellons, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine in the Vanderbilt Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Three Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty members have been awarded grants from the American Health Assistance Foundation to support their research on glaucoma and macular degeneration — the two leading causes of irreversible blindness in the world.

New therapeutic target for angiosarcoma – an aggressive, highly fatal tumor of the blood vessels – identified.