Reporter July 15 2016 Archive — Page 1 of 1
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July 14, 2016
‘Bedside Matters’ series now available online
Bedside Matters, a monthly rounds geared toward helping Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) employees deal with social and emotional issues in caring for patients and families, has launched a new website with online videos of the sessions, which nurses can now watch to get contact hours. -
July 14, 2016
VUMC again lauded for innovative technology efforts
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has once again been named among the nation’s “most-wired” hospitals and health systems for its innovative efforts in medical technology. -
July 14, 2016
VICC expands cancer care services at Spring Hill clinic
Cancer patients who live near Spring Hill, Tennessee, can now receive care from an experienced medical oncologist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) at Spring Hill instead of traveling to the main campus in Nashville. -
July 14, 2016
Membrane fats impact drug transporter
New studies of a membrane transporter could explain antibiotic resistance – and lead to novel ways to combat it. -
July 12, 2016
Macdonald to step down as chair of Neurology
Robert Macdonald, M.D., Ph.D., Margaret and John Warner Professor of Neurological Education and chair of Neurology since 2001, will be stepping down as chair of the Department of Neurology at Vanderbilt University when his successor is recruited and joins the Vanderbilt faculty. -
July 12, 2016
Vanderbilt study shows people with Alzheimer’s have lower ability to perceive pain
People with Alzheimer’s disease don’t perceive pain as readily as healthy older adults, and this may lead to delays and underreporting of pain. This alteration in pain detection may be one reason that people with Alzheimer’s disease and pain tend to be undermedicated and suffer unnecessarily, a trans-institutional group of Vanderbilt researchers reported recently in BMC Medicine. -
July 11, 2016
Robert “Bobby” Vantrease, artist and 64-year employee of VUMC, dies at 89