Reporter Jan 10 2014

HIV cell
January 15, 2014

HIV’s impact on B cells

Understanding how HIV infection affects immune system B cells may guide strategies for vaccine development.

By Leigh MacMillan
cells
January 13, 2014

Searching for beta cell stimulators

Vanderbilt researchers describe a new technique for identifying factors that stimulate the proliferation of pancreatic beta cells – factors that might offer therapeutic options for diabetes.

By Leigh MacMillan
January 10, 2014

iPods for patient transporters helping boost response times

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s 55 patient transporters average approximately 550 transports per weekday and 425 per day over the weekend. The dispatch system that coordinates transport is fully automated.

By Paul Govern
January 10, 2014

A pain in the … genes

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered that variation in the gene encoding the potassium channel GIRK1 plays a role in modulating human pain perception.

By Leigh MacMillan
January 9, 2014

Brain-gut connection in autism

An association between rigid-compulsive behaviors and gastrointestinal symptoms in autism spectrum disorder may point to a common biological pathway that impacts both the brain and the gut.

By Leigh MacMillan
Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D.
January 9, 2014

Rounds: A message from the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs

Could anything be more complicated than health care has become — particularly at VUMC where we are educating, discovering and caring for patients all at once?

By VUMC News and Communications
January 9, 2014

Emergency Medicine effort in Guyana reaches milestone

Vanderbilt’s Emergency Medicine residency program in Guyana graduated its first resident Nov. 22, 2013, marking a significant milestone in a decade-long effort to establish the country’s first Emergency Medicine program and department at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
By VUMC News and Communications
January 9, 2014

Collins memorial set for Jan. 18

A memorial service for Robert D. Collins, M.D., will be held Saturday, Jan. 18, at West End United Methodist Church in Nashville.
By VUMC News and Communications
January 9, 2014

UCLA Nursing School dean set for MLK lecture

Courtney H. Lyder, N.D., Sc.D., dean of the UCLA School of Nursing, is set to deliver the keynote address during the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Monday, Jan. 20.
By Jessica Pasley
January 9, 2014

Traveling exhibit traces medicine in Washington’s time

A National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit, “George Washington and Medicine,” is on display in the History of Medicine Room at the Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
By Wayne Wood
January 9, 2014

Pioneers of Discovery: Investigator seeks to debug cancer’s ‘bad software’

Beyond genetics — that’s the call Oliver McDonald, M.D., Ph.D., heard during the year between college and medical school he spent in a lab at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
By Bill Snyder
January 9, 2014

Cataract surgery helps clear clouds from patient’s vision

Suzy Gore spent the last 10 years watching her eyesight decline. Unable to see the vision chart at her doctor’s office without corrective lenses, tired of halo effects around lights and the challenge of driving at night, Gore decided to undergo laser cataract surgery.
By Jessica Pasley
January 7, 2014

Vanderbilt study shows suicide risk doesn’t differ in children taking two types of commonly prescribed antidepressants

A new Vanderbilt University Medical Center study shows there is no evidence that the risk of suicide differs with two commonly prescribed antidepressants prescribed to children and adolescents.
By Nancy Humphrey