Health and Medicine

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.

Supplements did not improve outcomes of patients with acute lung injury.

Antibodies to the 2009 H1N1 influenza strain reveal new insights into how antibody diversity forms and functions, with possible implications for designing flu vaccines.

Structural studies are providing insight to how aflatoxin – a toxin produced by fungi – contributes to cancer development.

A protein critical in heart development may also play a part in colon cancer progression.

Neuronal activity in a deep brain region increases as Parkinson’s disease advances, a new study suggests.

Drug-like molecules described by Vanderbilt researchers could lead to Parkinson's treatments with fewer side effects.