Reporter May 29 2020
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May 27, 2020
Gilmer named to International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame
Mary Jo Gilmer, PhD, MBA, professor of Nursing, has been selected for induction into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame by Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. -
May 27, 2020
Experts offer tips for managing and monitoring adolescent mental health
As families are managing the restrictions that the COVID-19 pandemic presents, doctors at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are urging parents to pay close attention to the behaviors of their children. -
May 27, 2020
Forbes named new chief of Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
Rachel Forbes, MD, MBA, associate professor of Surgery, has been appointed chief of the Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation in the Department of Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, effective June 1. -
May 27, 2020
Research probes why COVID-19 seems to spare young children
Lung disease experts at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and their colleagues have determined a key factor as to why COVID-19 appears to infect and sicken adults and older people preferentially while seeming to spare younger children. -
May 26, 2020
Doxycycline ineffective at shrinking aortic aneurysms in two-year study
Common antibiotic doxycycline reduces inflammation without changing aneurysm growth -
May 26, 2020
ASCO press program highlights COVID-19 outcomes in lung cancer patients
People with thoracic cancers sickened by COVID-19 were especially vulnerable to deaths with a 35% mortality rate, according to early results from TERAVOLT, a global consortium that tracks outcomes among this vulnerable patient population. -
May 25, 2020
Pediatric traumas rose as children stayed home more
During the first few weeks of the statewide stay-at-home order issued by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, physicians at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital saw a higher volume of pediatric traumas, including ATV accidents, dirt bike accidents and pellet gunshot wounds.