WKRN News 2‘s Andy Cordan has a report on "the cost of a gunshot" and features Dr. Rick Miller from Vanderbilt‘s Trauma Center.

Operating without direct funding, Tennessee‘s trauma center network is at a critical crossroads, said health professionals today, who launched a statewide education campaign aimed at raising the profile and sounding the alarm bells regarding the system.

Jessica Pasley, a VUMC employee, talks about African American bone marrow donations on CNN‘s Paula Zahn‘s show.

Arnold W. Strauss, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics and medical director of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt, is leaving to become chief medical officer and director of the Children‘s Research Foundation at Cincinnati Children‘s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio.

Jennifer A. Pietenpol, Ph.D., has been selected to lead the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center as interim director.

Nearly 10 percent of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) victims have mutations or variations in genes associated with potentially lethal heart rhythms (arrhythmias), according to two newly published studies involving Vanderbilt researchers.

Raymond DuBois Jr., M.D., Ph.D., will leave his position as director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center later this year to return to his native Texas as provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.