Department of Pediatrics Archive
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July 24, 2023
Study explores how often children diagnosed with flu experience serious neuropsychiatric side effects
A Vanderbilt study is among the first to quantify how often children diagnosed with flu experience serious neuropsychiatric side effects. -
July 19, 2023
Newly approved constipation drug gives pediatricians more options
The first therapy for pediatric functional constipation in patients ages 6 to 17 years old could be a game changer according to gastroenterologists at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. -
July 17, 2023
Academy for Excellence in Education elects 13 new members
Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Academy for Excellence in Education has elected 13 new members for 2023. -
July 7, 2023
Pediatric Heart Transplant Program medical director Debra Dodd retiring
After nearly 40 years and being involved in more than 300 lifesaving transplantations at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Debra Dodd, MD, is retiring. -
July 5, 2023
Vanderbilt researchers envision the potential to grow new lungs
Using a four-dimensional microscope that allows them to watch a tissue putting itself together, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have achieved a rare feat in science — they have shattered a long-standing dogma about how the lung develops. -
July 5, 2023
Tennessee Pediatric Neurocritical Care Collaboration holds inaugural conference
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt recently hosted the first statewide conference of the Tennessee Pediatric Neurocritical Care Collaboration. -
June 29, 2023
Persistent inflammatory state found in half of pediatric sepsis deaths: study
New research shows that about half of pediatric patients who died of sepsis over the past 20 years at Vanderbilt University Medical Center had evidence of an inflammatory state called persistent inflammation, immunosuppression and catabolism syndrome.