Health and Medicine
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June 2, 2016
Tool sought for doctors to quickly identify patients at risk for cognitive decline
Katherine Gifford, Psy.D., is testing simple questions to see which ones yield the most reliable results as she develops a questionnaire for primary care providers to quickly identify patients at risk for cognitive decline. -
June 2, 2016
‘Crowdsourcing’ project aims to refine data extraction from electronic health records
A research team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will develop a crowdsourcing solution for generating a wide range of labeled data sets from electronic health records (EHRs). -
June 2, 2016
VUMC researchers seek to crack the code of neonatal sepsis
Sepsis, an exaggerated and overwhelming inflammatory response to infection, is a major worldwide killer of babies in the first four weeks of life (neonatal period). -
June 2, 2016
New software tracks cancer mutations, survival
A team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has developed and tested software that scans electronic health records in real time to monitor cancer patient survival (from time of diagnosis) according to which genes, if any, are found to carry mutations. -
May 26, 2016
Study links hyperglycemia in pediatric stroke patients to poor outcomes
Childhood stroke patients with hyperglycemia may be more at risk for disability, according to a Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) study that sought to determine if vital sign measurements and blood glucose levels could be associated with poor neurological outcomes. -
May 26, 2016
Study finds family history may play role in young athletes’ recovery from concussion
Young athletes who experience a sports-related concussion are more likely to suffer a prolonged period of symptoms if they also have a family history of mood disorders, psychiatric illnesses or migraines, according to a study from the Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center (VSCC) published in Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. -
May 23, 2016
Chloride “switch” turns on membrane formation: study
Chloride plays a key role in the formation of the basement membrane, a suprastructure on the outside of cells that undergirds and guides the function of most of the tissues of the body.