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July 7, 2023
Novel treatments for fake patients
A customizable framework uses simulated patients to distinguish effects of a new treatment from “learning effects” for clinicians; it should help identify training opportunities and hasten treatment improvements. -
July 7, 2023
Study reveals new clue to gastric cancer
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have uncovered evidence of fibroblast cells' direct involvement in the development of gastric cancer. -
July 7, 2023
Pediatric Heart Transplant Program medical director Debra Dodd retiring
After nearly 40 years and being involved in more than 300 lifesaving transplantations at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Debra Dodd, MD, is retiring. -
July 6, 2023
Yasminye Pettway selected as the 2023 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar
Yasminye Pettway has been selected as the 2023 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar. -
July 5, 2023
Vanderbilt researchers envision the potential to grow new lungs
Using a four-dimensional microscope that allows them to watch a tissue putting itself together, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have achieved a rare feat in science — they have shattered a long-standing dogma about how the lung develops. -
June 29, 2023
Selenium signal found in colorectal cancer: study
An antioxidant transporter of the trace mineral selenium that protects against inflammatory bowel disease has the opposite effect in colorectal cancer, where it promotes tumor growth, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have reported. -
June 29, 2023
Persistent inflammatory state found in half of pediatric sepsis deaths: study
New research shows that about half of pediatric patients who died of sepsis over the past 20 years at Vanderbilt University Medical Center had evidence of an inflammatory state called persistent inflammation, immunosuppression and catabolism syndrome.