Department of Medicine Archive — Page 72 of 79
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January 11, 2016
Improving colonoscopy prep
Providing an educational booklet on colonoscopy preparation increased the odds of an adequate quality of bowel preparation by more than two-fold. -
November 13, 2015
Computer extracts cancer stage
Vanderbilt investigators developed a computerized natural language processing algorithm to extract cancer stages from electronic medical records. -
November 12, 2015
Immune system a must for kidney repair
A signaling protein that is essential for recovery from acute kidney injury works by increasing the population of tissue-repairing immune cells. -
November 12, 2015
Wheeler’s contributions to critical care lauded
Arthur Wheeler, M.D., professor of Medicine, received the 2015 Presidential Honor Lecture Award last month from the American College of Chest Physicians during the college’s international meeting in Montreal. -
October 29, 2015
Inflammation, obesity and diabetes
Vanderbilt study adds to the mounting role for inflammatory signaling in obesity. -
October 20, 2015
A bundle, a dashboard and lasting pneumonia reduction
A “bundle” of electronically implemented care guidelines reduced intensive care unit patient complications related to mechanical ventilation. -
October 16, 2015
Healing without scarring
Drugs that inhibit the Wnt signaling pathway can regenerate injured skin and may be useful in treating fibromatosis, degenerative joint disease and cancer.