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March 30, 2023

Infant sleep safety education vital to reduce deaths

According to Tennessee’s 2022 Child Fatality Annual Report, over the past five years, white infants accounted for most of the sleep-related infant deaths in Tennessee, but Black infants were three times more likely to suffer a sleep-related fatality.

By Jessica Pasley
Group of nine adults posing indoors; two women at center hold a framed certificate, while others stand around them wearing leis. A round sign in the background reads “Lily’s Garden.”
March 30, 2023

Family’s gift will support pediatric cancer research

Lily Hensiek’s family has made a new $1 million commitment to endow the Lily’s Garden Discovery Researcher Fund in the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By Nancy Humphrey
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Bill Russell, MD, wearing a gray checked suit jacket, light blue shirt, and blue tie.
March 23, 2023

Study sheds light on drug’s impact on diabetes progression

A Vanderbilt study of a treatment to delay the development of Type 1 diabetes in individuals at high risk did not meet the study goals of delaying progression from normal glucose tolerance to abnormal glucose tolerance or clinical diagnosis, although the study drug, abatacept, impacted immune response and preserved insulin production during the one-year treatment period.

By Craig Boerner
Stylized front-view anatomical illustration of the human torso showing the lungs and branching airways highlighted in yellow and orange within a translucent purple chest.
March 23, 2023

VUMC accredited for primary ciliary dyskinesia care

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been named a fully accredited adult PCD (primary ciliary dyskinesia) Foundation Clinical and Research Center site.

By Nancy Humphrey
Infographic titled “Food Insecurity” reporting that over 40% of Tennessee families have low or very low food security, over 70% have changed spending habits due to rising food prices, and nearly 30% of those parents skip meals. A child appears beside an image of vegetables, with Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy branding.
March 23, 2023

Poll shows food insecurity on rise in Tennessee

A newly released Vanderbilt poll found that an increasing number of Tennessee parents are reporting their families are food insecure.

By Jake Lowary
The locker is filled with basic necessities to help patients and caregivers with their medical care journeys.
March 16, 2023

Football player’s donation honors his late brother

P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative, along with Buffalo Bills football player Dawson Knox, recently presented Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with a gift of “Luke’s Locker” in memory of his brother.

By Christina Echegaray