Tom Elasy

GRADE Study expands results of major NIH-sponsored comparative study of glucose lowering medications in Type 2 diabetes

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.

Music therapy comes to Palliative Care Unit

“Music opens many new perspectives and pathways that patients otherwise would not have.”

Day of events highlights efforts to fight diabetes

Vanderbilt University’s contributions to the field of diabetes — past and present — were celebrated recently during the annual Diabetes Day at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center.

Initiative to help ‘translate’ diabetes research advances

The new Center for Diabetes Translation Research will translate scientific breakthroughs into practices that can be applied in the doctor’s office and the patient’s home.