This year Vanderbilt Home Care switched to the same electronic health record system used by VUMC, enabling providers to have a more complete view of their patients' care at home.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among men in the U.S.

The 5th Annual Vanderbilt Alzheimer's Disease Research Day, sponsored by the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center (VMAC), was held April 10 at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.

In a national retrospective study led by researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, diltiazem, when given in combination with the anticoagulant drugs apixaban (Eliquis) or rivaroxaban (Xarelto), significantly increased the risk of serious bleeding compared to metoprolol.

VUMC is acrawl with statistical design, bias detection and analysis that’s recognized with $532 million in federal and nonfederal research support.

Thanks to the efforts of several supporters, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt was able to grow its spiritual care resources.

Peter Reese, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural director of the Vanderbilt Center for Transplant Science.