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Bonnie Miller, wearing glasses and a pale yellow cardigan, stands beside a blackboard labeled “Curriculum 2.0.”
July 26, 2012

School of Medicine debuts new model for medical learning

This summer, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students began implementing a new, innovative, four-year education model called Curriculum 2.0.

By Vanderbilt Health News
A long-haired man in a blue shirt practices standing with parallel bars in a rehabilitation clinic while a physical therapist in an orange shirt speaks with him; a wheelchair is nearby.
July 26, 2012

‘Miracle man’ rolls down long road to recovery

He was going less than 30 miles per hour, but James Simmons’ motorcycle was no match for the car that pulled out in front of him on Lock 4 Road in Gallatin.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Nighttime scene outside the Century 16 movie theater, with police tape surrounding the area, emergency vehicles in the foreground, and people gathered behind the cordon.
July 24, 2012

Children’s Hospital nurse in Colorado theater when shooting begins, aids victims

Mia Bransford, R.N., EMT, a nurse in the Pediatric Emergency Department at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, was attending a family reunion and was at the Century 16 theater in Aurora, Colo., last Friday just after midnight to enjoy the new Batman movie.

By Wayne Wood
Vitamin E
July 20, 2012

High consumption of vitamin E may lower liver cancer risk

By Vanderbilt Health News
A hand holds a stethoscope against a red map of North America on a white background.
July 19, 2012

VU to map gaps in physician coverage across nation

Vanderbilt researchers have been selected to receive a national grant as part of a push to gauge the coming impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

By Vanderbilt Health News
Two young girls sit together on a playground beside a green swing in a hospital courtyard. One wears a pink dress; the other wears a white top with a bright pink skirt and a large red bow.
July 19, 2012

Two families create strong bond during hospital stays

If not for their daughters’ illnesses, Laura Meador and Amy Hamilton probably would never have met. But their paths crossed in an unlikely venue — the sixth floor of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt — and a burgeoning friendship was born.

By Jessica Pasley