pediatrics Archive
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March 30, 2023
Infant sleep safety education vital to reduce deaths
According to Tennessee’s 2022 Child Fatality Annual Report, over the past five years, white infants accounted for most of the sleep-related infant deaths in Tennessee, but Black infants were three times more likely to suffer a sleep-related fatality. -
March 30, 2023
Family’s gift will support pediatric cancer research
Lily Hensiek's family has made a new $1 million commitment to endow the Lily’s Garden Discovery Researcher Fund in the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. -
March 23, 2023
Study sheds light on drug’s impact on diabetes progression
A Vanderbilt study of a treatment to delay the development of Type 1 diabetes in individuals at high risk did not meet the study goals of delaying progression from normal glucose tolerance to abnormal glucose tolerance or clinical diagnosis, although the study drug, abatacept, impacted immune response and preserved insulin production during the one-year treatment period. -
March 23, 2023
VUMC accredited for primary ciliary dyskinesia care
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been named a fully accredited adult PCD (primary ciliary dyskinesia) Foundation Clinical and Research Center site. -
March 23, 2023
Poll shows food insecurity on rise in Tennessee
A newly released Vanderbilt poll found that an increasing number of Tennessee parents are reporting their families are food insecure. -
March 16, 2023
Football player’s donation honors his late brother
P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative, along with Buffalo Bills football player Dawson Knox, recently presented Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with a gift of “Luke’s Locker” in memory of his brother. -
March 16, 2023
Study seeks to identify prenatal allergy risk markers
A Vanderbilt clinical trial is seeking to identify prenatal and early childhood markers of high risk for food allergy and atopic dermatitis, or eczema, as well as biological pathways that lead to these conditions.