Division of Infectious Diseases Archive — Page 13 of 13
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October 30, 2013
Preserving antibiotic arsenal for TB
Clinicians should be cautious about prescribing newer fluoroquinolone antibiotics to patients with TB risk factors; doing so may jeopardize the use of these agents against TB. -
October 10, 2013
Talbot lands epidemiology award
Thomas Talbot, M.D., MPH, associate professor of Medicine and Chief Hospital Epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, received the 2013 Investigator Award from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) at the organization’s Annual Scientific Meeting last week in San Francisco. -
April 4, 2013
Vanderbilt researchers work to balance flu vaccine debate
Research in the last two years to examine the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine has raised public doubt about the flu shot's effectiveness. But two Vanderbilt researchers co-wrote an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently to help balance the current debate. -
March 14, 2013
New center to focus on treating, preventing TB
Vanderbilt University has established a tuberculosis center to expand and extend efforts to improve the treatment and prevention of this often fatal disease here and around the world. -
March 14, 2013
Recruitments bolster personalized medicine initiative
VUMC’s personalized medicine effort is getting a major boost with the recruitment of two physician-scientists from Australia who will increase Vanderbilt’s strength in translational immunology, the translation of basic immunological discoveries into clinically useful tools. -
October 25, 2012
HIV/AIDS-related efforts in Africa get $7 million boost
Vanderbilt University has received a major federal grant — just more than $7 million in the first year — to extend HIV/AIDS-related technical assistance and training in the rural province of Zambézia, Mozambique. -
August 2, 2012
Early HIV treatment also can prevent TB: study
Anti-retroviral therapy can prevent tuberculosis, even in people with early HIV disease.