The findings represent a significant advance toward development of more effective, targeted therapies for congenital diarrhea and enteropathies

One of two commonly used oximetry devices failed to detect low oxygen levels in 7% of patients with the darkest skin tone.

Of 38 adults with severe SCD who participated in the study, more than 97% no longer required immunosuppressive therapy one year after the transplant.

Bodien, who will co-direct the Neuroimaging Core of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship Center, has applied behavioral measures and advanced neuroimaging to improve the diagnosis and prognosis of severe brain injury.

Preoxygenation is the administration of supplemental oxygen prior to the start of a procedure to increase the content of oxygen in the lung and decrease the risk of hypoxemia

The study, which included more than 5,000 volunteers with Type 2 diabetes from diverse racial and ethnic groups, compared the treatments insulin glargine, liraglutide, glimepiride and sitagliptin.

A Vanderbilt study study comparing the two types of laryngoscopes used in tracheal intubation of critically ill patients showed that the use of a video laryngoscope increased successful intubation on the first attempt, compared to the use of a direct laryngoscope, the standard approach for almost a century.