Reporter July 26 2019

Major grant renews AIDS education, training initiative

VUMC has been awarded a five-year, nearly $23 million federal grant to continue coordinating AIDS education and training efforts in Tennessee and seven other southeastern states.

Heart Institute offering new option to clear carotid arteries

Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute is now offering a new procedure that reduces stroke risk for many high-risk patients during interventions for extracranial carotid disease

Encephalitis identified as rare toxicity of immunotherapy treatment

Researchers are chronicling rare but serious toxicities that may occur with immune checkpoint inhibitors, the most widely prescribed class of immunotherapies.

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