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June 15, 2006

President Bush Nominates VUSN’s Conway-Welch to the Nation’s Federal Health Sciences University

President George W. Bush recently announced his intention to nominate Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., as a member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 8, 2006

First Trimester Use of ACE Inhibitors Implicated in Birth Defects

The Food and Drug Administration is examining study data from Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, to determine if new warnings should be placed on common blood pressure medications indicating an increased risk of birth defects for babies whose mothers take these medications during the first trimester of pregnancy.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 8, 2006

First Adult Cancer Patient in Nashville to Receive Stem Cell Transplant from Umbilical Cord Blood at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

When 24-year-old Charles Dougherty checks into Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center tomorrow, he’ll be preparing for a treatment that has never been performed before in an adult patient in Nashville, and will be only the second case in Tennessee history.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 26, 2006

VUMC’s Executive Vice President Norman Urmy to Retire

Norman Urmy, who over the past 24 years has led Vanderbilt University Hospital and its clinical enterprise successfully through an ever-changing landscape of health care changes, is stepping down.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 11, 2006

Effectiveness of Grapefruit Diet Studied at Vanderbilt Medical Center

In order to validate, or perhaps disprove, the belief that consuming grapefruit is a sensible weight loss strategy, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have launched a two-year, three-arm randomized controlled study to see just how consumption of grapefruit and grapefruit juice affects appetite, dietary intake, weight loss and body composition.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 4, 2006

Aeras and Vanderbilt University Announce License Deal for New TB Vaccine

The Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation of Bethesda, Md., and Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tenn., announced that the two organizations had executed an exclusive license for a tuberculosis vaccine.

By Bill Snyder
April 28, 2006

Nancy Andreasen Receives First Annual Vanderbilt Prize

Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa, has been selected as the first recipient of the "Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science."
By VUMC News and Communications
April 25, 2006

Vanderbilt Medical Center Opposes Repeal of State’s Motorcycle Helmet Law

Tennessee's Legislature is again seriously considering a repeal of the state's mandatory motorcycle helmet law for adults.
By VUMC News and Communications
April 21, 2006

Vanderbilt Celebrates National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week

Vanderbilt Medical Center laboratories will be joining the many laboratories across the country that observe and celebrate National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week (NMLPW).
By VUMC News and Communications
April 18, 2006

Nationwide Breast Cancer Prevention Trial Resuts

Results of Nationwide Breast Cancer Prevention Trial Show Osteoporosis Drug Raloxifene is as Effective as Tamoxifen in Preventing Invasive Breast Cancer; Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is Only Regional Participant
By VUMC News and Communications
April 4, 2006

Vanderbilt LifeFlight Receives National Accreditation

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's LifeFlight air ambulance program has become the first program in Tennessee to receive accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS).
By VUMC News and Communications
March 22, 2006

LifeFlight’s Bland Named Emergency Medical Technician of the Year by State Ambulance Service Association

Tony Bland, a 15-year veteran of Vanderbilt's LifeFlight, has been named "EMT of the Year" by the Tennessee Ambulance Service Association.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 20, 2006

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Research Earns Funding from Lance Armstrong Foundation to Study Effects of Exercise on Curbing Memory Problems Associated with Chemotherapy

Researchers at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center are studying whether exercise can help curb memory and cognitive problems experienced by many cancer survivors following chemotherapy.
By VUMC News and Communications
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