After moving to Nashville in 2011, Sallie and John chose Vanderbilt Health for their care because they valued being part of a teaching hospital.

The latest findings could lead to more targeted ways to increase insulin-stimulated glucose uptake by muscle and exercise tolerance.

The study advances understanding of risk for colon and rectal cancers and points to targets for developing new treatments.

Researchers at Vanderbilt Health and three other centers compared conventional dialysis to a conservative dialysis strategy.

Since 2014, 27 Vanderbilt faculty members have received the annual award, which recognizes “notable achievements” by researchers early in their first faculty appointments.

The development of better biopsy approaches is driven by the fact that lung cancer kills more than 130,000 Americans annually, and survival depends on early diagnosis, which requires biopsy to be definitive.

The findings could bring relief to the more than 26 million people in the United States with asthma, a chronic and complex inflammatory disease of the airways.