Department of Pediatrics

April 18, 2019

Medical Societies honor multiple Vanderbilt faculty

Several Vanderbilt faculty members were recently honored during the joint annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

By Bill Snyder
April 11, 2019

VUMC joins with National Academies, other institutions to launch initiative to prevent sexual harassment in higher education

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has joined the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and over 40 other colleges, universities and research institutions — including Vanderbilt University — to launch an Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education.
March 28, 2019

Cardiac dysfunction in DMD

The protein MMP7 is elevated in blood from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who have cardiac dysfunction, suggesting that it may be a biomarker for heart disease severity.

By Leigh MacMillan
Young Mady Krauter, right, and her family — sister, Ali, and parents Brent and Kim — have been on a diagnosis journey with the Vanderbilt Undiagnosed Diseases Network.
March 14, 2019

Undiagnosed Diseases Network helps guide girl’s medical journey

On July 6, 2017, the Krauter family of Hiawatha, Kansas, received a belated 4th birthday present for their younger daughter, Mady — a diagnosis for a host of worsening neurological symptoms that they first noticed when she was 3 months old.

By Nancy Humphrey
February 14, 2019

Study finds children with autism more likely to face maltreatment

A recent study by Vanderbilt researchers of 11 counties in Middle Tennessee revealed that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were nearly 2.5 times more likely than children without ASD to be reported to the Child Abuse Hotline by the age of 8.

By Kelsey Herbers
Lisa Bastarache, MS, Josh Denny, MD, MS, and colleagues are helping researchers study associations among de-identified genotype data and electronic health records data. (photo by John Russell)
February 7, 2019

PheWAS Core helps researchers make sense of electronic health record data

Some biomedical researchers may be unsure about routine electronic health record (EHR) data and how useful it ultimately may prove for drawing meaningful, actionable associations that warrant changes to clinical practice and lead to improved clinical outcomes.

By Paul Govern
February 7, 2019

‘A Campaign Against Childhood Cancer’ launched

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt publicly launched a $15 million childhood cancer campaign this week.
By Christina Echegaray
January 28, 2019

Nasal whooping cough vaccine trial underway at Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt vaccine researchers are enrolling adult volunteers in a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored Phase II clinical trial that will study a next generation pertussis vaccine that may protect people from whooping cough.
By Craig Boerner
December 11, 2018

Tim McGraw stars in fundraising ad for Children’s Hospital NICU

Country music star Tim McGraw has teamed up with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to promote the hospital’s Give to the Next Breath initiative, a philanthropic marketing effort to support the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
By Paige Turner
November 15, 2018

My Special Aflac Duck engages and comforts children

Patients at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt were surprised with their very own My Special Aflac Duck, a high-tech robot that uses medical play, lifelike movement and emotions to engage and help comfort children during their cancer care.
By Jessica Pasley
November 1, 2018

Team seeks to identify immune response to influenza

Vanderbilt researchers, as part of the International Human Vaccines Project, are searching for the key to lasting protection against influenza by examining naturally protecting cells found in bone marrow.
By Craig Boerner
October 16, 2018

An approaching hurricane. A critically ill baby. A Vanderbilt team flies in to help.

"The mother was so grateful that we were able to get her baby to a safe place.”
By Jessica Pasley
September 27, 2018

VUMC’s Undiagnosed Diseases Network site gains NIH renewal

By Nancy Humphrey
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