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A group of performers in matching white shirts sing and play guitars during an indoor pep rally, with seated and standing spectators watching in the background.
September 13, 2012

New song, video set to help pump up Heart Walk awareness

At the inaugural Heart Walk Pep Rally last week, the Vanderbilt Heart Sounds introduced this year’s song, an original composition titled “Walk the Walk,” written by Cardiac Surgery administrative assistant Kurt Eger and cardiologist Mark Glazer, M.D.

By Kathy Whitney
A research associate sits at a table with a mother and young girl, showing them food portions and materials for a study enrollment; sample foods, paperwork, a laptop, and measuring containers are visible.
September 6, 2012

Metro Parks, VU team on obesity prevention project

A collaboration between Vanderbilt Pediatric researchers and the Metro Nashville Parks and Recreation Department to prevent obesity is kicking into high gear with the recruitment of 600 area familes.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Rows of labeled blood collection tubes with purple caps arranged in a laboratory storage rack.
September 6, 2012

BioVU reaches new benchmark in DNA samples

This month BioVU logged in its 150,000th unique genetic sample. It is now the world’s largest collection of human DNA linked to searchable, electronic health information.

By Bill Snyder
Young child with brown hair looks upward while seated indoors; an adult’s arm and legs are partially visible in the background.
September 6, 2012

Patient’s odyssey takes her from Japan to Vanderbilt

Cylinda Marquart gripped the small Post-it note inscribed with Japanese characters as her 6-week-old daughter, Albi-Helene Martin, was raced to a hospital by ambulance.

By Christina Echegaray
A woman assists another woman in putting on a white coat at a graduate student white coat ceremony, with additional white coats hanging behind them.
September 6, 2012

New doctoral students welcomed

Vanderbilt University Medical Center welcomed 109 new doctoral students into the scientific community last week in the third annual “Simple Beginnings” ceremony.

By Leigh MacMillan
Four young baseball players in white uniforms and blue caps run across a field while holding a banner reading “SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE CHAMPIONS.”
August 30, 2012

Diabetes can’t hold back Little League champion

By Christina Echegaray