Health and Medicine

October 18, 2012

Nobel in Chemistry reveals VU ties that bind

Several Vanderbilt researchers have collaborated with this year’s Nobel Chemistry winners.

By Bill Snyder
Children's Hospital exterior
October 18, 2012

Improved patient ‘handover’ process bolsters outcomes

Patient handovers matter. A lot. That’s the conclusion from Vanderbilt researchers who reviewed three years of patient data and found that major complications occurring within 24 hours after cardiac surgery were cut in half following the adoption of an improved handover process.

By Paul Govern
October 18, 2012

Gene regulation found to play role in pulmonary hypertension

New findings from Vanderbilt researchers may explain why only some individuals who have inherited mutations that increase risk for pulmonary hypertension actually develop the disease.

By Leigh MacMillan
October 18, 2012

Setting traps to probe gene function

A new method for creating genetic mutations that can be activated at certain times or in specific tissues will enable studies to probe gene function.

By Leigh MacMillan
neurons
October 11, 2012

VU scientists cheer Nobel Prize for stem cell research

Vanderbilt University scientists are cheering this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for recognizing the discovery that mature cells can be “reprogrammed” into other cell types — a finding which they said has electrified their work.

By Bill Snyder
October 11, 2012

Pneumonia vaccine for children to be tested in older adults

Vanderbilt is taking part in a national study to test in older adults the use of a vaccine designed to protect children against a common cause of pneumonia.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 11, 2012

VU recruit’s work lights up genetic ‘dark matter’

They’ve been called “junk DNA” and genetic “dark matter” — the long segments of the human genome (98 percent of it) that do not encode protein.
By Bill Snyder
October 11, 2012

Amish aid search for Alzheimer’s genes

An analysis of Amish populations revealed novel risk genes for late-onset Alzheimer disease.
By Leigh MacMillan
October 9, 2012

Complementary and alternative medicine use differs by race, economics

Use of complementary and alternative medicine differs by race and socioeconomic factors, study reports.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 5, 2012

Host proteins can control HIV infection

The protein APOBEC3G contributes to spontaneous control of HIV-1 in vivo and may provide therapeutic benefits.
By Leigh MacMillan
October 4, 2012

Proteins help flip tumor’s invasive switch

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.
By Leigh MacMillan
October 4, 2012

Grant helps expand health care, education programs in Zambia

Vanderbilt University is dramatically expanding its health care and education activities in the southern African nation of Zambia.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 4, 2012

An orphan enzyme’s purpose

“Orphan” enzyme may play role in cancer growth, new research suggests.
By VUMC News and Communications
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