Study seeks to ease ‘chemobrain’ for cancer patients

Many women who receive chemotherapy for breast cancer report problems with their thinking, memory and attention after treatment.

New device monitors pulmonary artery pressures

For patients with heart failure, changes in pulmonary artery (PA) pressures are an early indication that their condition is worsening, even before they notice symptoms such as shortness of breath or weight gain.

First group of students enters Curriculum 2.0’s final phase

In 2013 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) implemented Curriculum 2.0. Tagged as a system of lifelong learning, the deeply integrated curriculum requires flexibility and teamwork on the part of faculty and allows students opportunities to individualize their training.

Siri ‘butt dial’ to 911 brings rescuers to trapped victim

Simmons strives to make a difference in children’s lives

Jill Simmons, M.D., encounters medical mysteries that have the makings of a science fiction film or novel.

Protein ‘clumping’ linked to severe form of genetic epilepsy

Researchers at Vanderbilt University for the first time have demonstrated in a mouse model that aggregation, the “clumping together” of abnormal proteins, can contribute to a severe form of genetic epilepsy.