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Two laboratory researchers in white coats stand together in a clinical laboratory filled with computer monitors and testing equipment.
December 3, 2020

Team tracks sources of false positives in urine drug screens

False positives on urine drug screens are common and are frequently due to cross-reactivity of these tests to medications. Last year, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers Jacob Hughey, PhD, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics, and Jennifer Colby, PhD, at that time assistant professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, devised, tested and published a method to systematically identify medications that interfere with screenings for drugs of abuse.

By Paul Govern
Five masked adults pose on a hospital helipad, with a physician in a white coat at center and four people in formal uniforms or a dark suit around him.
December 2, 2020

LifeFlight named air medical program of the year

Vanderbilt LifeFlight has been named the air medical program of the year by the Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS).

Three researchers stand side by side in a hospital corridor; the caption identifies them, from left, as Jonathan Kropski, MD, Jennifer Sucre, MD, and Bryce Schuler, MD, PhD.
November 18, 2020

Why does COVID-19 seem to spare children? Vanderbilt University Medical Center study offers an answer 

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and their colleagues have determined a key factor as to why COVID-19 appears to infect and sicken adults and older people preferentially while seeming to spare younger children. 

By Bill Snyder
Seven masked adults pose during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, holding a large blue ribbon and scissors in front of a sign reading “Vanderbilt Lung Institute One Hundred Oaks.”
November 18, 2020

Collaborative Vanderbilt Lung Institute launches

By Matt Batcheldor
Masked child peers through a window with a flashlight while an adult wearing glasses and a mask stands beside her; blue and purple lights illuminate the scene.
November 18, 2020

Nashville lights up the night to support Children’s Hospital

By Christina Echegaray
November 16, 2020

Kohl’s grant supports child passenger safety initiative at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will allocate funding from a $120,000 grant from Kohl’s to support the child passenger safety initiative — Kohl’s Stay Seat Smart Program.

By Jessica Pasley