Reporter Nov 18 2016

Nashville Holiday Music Special artists will perform from several iconic Nashville locations.
November 17, 2022

Lineup set for upcoming Nashville Holiday Music Special

The lineup is set for the 2022 Nashville Holiday Music Special benefiting Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By VUMC News and Communications
November 23, 2016

Reducing antidepressants’ side effects

Vanderbilt investigators have discovered how antidepressant medicines that block serotonin uptake can increase bleeding risk.

By VUMC News and Communications
November 21, 2016

Building the basement membrane

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered steps in the regulation of a key enzyme that builds the basement membrane, a structure that undergirds nearly all animal tissues.

By Bill Snyder
November 18, 2016

Targeting the “un-targetable”

A novel drug that targets the protein RSK blocked aggressive breast cancers from metastasizing in an animal model.

By VUMC News and Communications
November 17, 2016

Sarcoidosis research, patient care focus of newly created center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has established a Sarcoidosis Center of Excellence under the direction of Wonder Drake, M.D., associate professor of Medicine and Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology.

By Wayne Wood
November 17, 2016

Rising up

The first of two cranes is in place on the corner of Children’s Way and Medical Center Drive as construction gets underway on the four-floor expansion of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By VUMC News and Communications
November 17, 2016

VUMC’s Rett Syndrome Clinic lands national recognition

Vanderbilt’s Rett Syndrome Clinic has been named a Rett Syndrome Clinical Research Center of Excellence by Rettsyndrome.org.
By VUMC News and Communications
November 17, 2016

School of Medicine’s newest teaching award honors Nanney

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) recently established the Academy for Excellence in Education Lillian B. Nanney Award for Outstanding Service to the VUSM/Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Community of Educators.
By Kathy Whitney
November 17, 2016

Hockey Fights Cancer Night

Max Hermsdorfer, center, served as patient ambassador for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt at the recent Nashville Predators Hockey Fights Cancer Night.
By VUMC News and Communications
November 17, 2016

Award honors Beauchamp’s teaching, research

R. Daniel Beauchamp, M.D., chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences and the John Clinton Foshee Distinguished Professor of Surgery, has been selected to receive the 2016 Dr. Rodman E. and Thomas G. Sheen Award from the New Jersey American College of Surgeons (ACS) Chapter.
By Jill Clendening
November 17, 2016

Graduate student’s cancer studies land NCI support

Kamakoti “Kami” Bhat, a fifth-year graduate student in the lab of David Cortez, Ph.D., professor of Biochemistry in the School of Medicine, has achieved a “first” for Vanderbilt University.
By Bill Snyder
November 17, 2016

Stocking stuffers

Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt received 100 stockings filled with toys to be used as gifts for patients throughout the holidays. Wal-Mart Regional General Manager and Children's Hospital board member Sean Riley, center, partnered with Nabisco to donate the stockings, which are 8 feet long.
By Doug Campbell
November 17, 2016

VUMC named among top U.S. heart hospitals

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has been named one of the nation’s top cardiovascular hospitals by Truven Health Analytics.
By Jessica Pasley
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