Vanderbilt's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture hosted a conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care."

Vanderbilt\'s Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture hosted a conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care."

Research shows colon cancer can be decreased up to 90 percent by removing polyps from the colon before they become cancer, yet half of those people, who should be checked, don’t have the screening.

Watch streaming video of a multi-disciplinary panel taking up the controversial topic of state-required vaccinations for sexually transmitted disease on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School.

A Vanderbilt research team reports, in the largest study of any single gene, that a gene, identified in cancer, is also involved in autism.

Doctors say it is a massive public health problem - very sick patients in intensive care may get better, but their brains suffer from delirium, an acute brain dysfunction - very likely caused by the care they got in intensive care.