Department of Medicine Archive — Page 22 of 119
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June 10, 2024
Office of Outpatient Referral Assistance announces leadership appointments
The office ensures that patients receive timely and appropriate medical attention and optimizes uncompensated care delivery through case reviews and determinations that have dramatically increased over the last four years. -
June 10, 2024
Vanderbilt researchers establish biomedical informatics training program in Mozambique
Building sustainable biomedical informatics training and research capacity to address gaps in Mozambique's national HIV response will help the country leverage newer data-driven and genetics-based approaches for personalized HIV care and molecular epidemiology of the disease. -
June 7, 2024
Discovery raises hopes for new cancer therapy
The study connected the Hippo signaling pathway to phosphoinositides, a particular type of lipid, or fat molecule, which regulates cell functions that are critical in cancer, obesity and diabetes. -
June 6, 2024
Fei Ye selected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association
Fei Ye is the first woman among VUMC's Biostatistics faculty to be selected as an ASA fellow. She'll be among 47 new ASA fellows inducted in August at the Joint Statistical Meetings. -
June 4, 2024
Research raises hope for treating potentially lethal blood condition
Roughly 1 in 10 people over age 70 will develop CHIP, an explosive, clonal growth of abnormal blood cells that increases risk of blood cancers and death from cardiovascular, lung and liver disease. -
June 3, 2024
Genetic variation associated with low white blood cell count impacts clinical decisions
People whose white blood cell levels are near the edge of the “healthy” reference range will hit a clinical decision point that has consequences such as diagnostic procedures and altered treatments. -
May 31, 2024
VUMC-led team reports potential new way to stimulate weight loss
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System have demonstrated in a small clinical study that “turning up the heat” on fat may help people lose weight and reduce their risk of obesity-related cardiovascular and metabolic disease.