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July 8, 2025
VUMC researchers host international fellows for economic evaluation, decision science training
The fellows, all government health economists in low- and middle-income African and Asian countries, each focused on a health policy concern important to their country. -
July 8, 2025
Meg Rush to retire after four decades of service to children’s health care
Rush has spent her entire medical career at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Monroe Carell, arriving at VUMC in 1984 as a motivated resident passionate about helping the tiniest of patients in neonatology, joining the faculty in 1990, and rising through the ranks as a well-respected leader. -
July 8, 2025
Vanderbilt, Parse Biosciences scientists envision an antibody ‘atlas’ for measles, mumps, rubella
Researchers will scan the landscape of plasmablasts, the first antibody-producing, B-type immune cells that respond to MMR infection. -
July 7, 2025
Experts offer tips on dealing with ticks this summer
Four tick-borne illnesses are most common in Tennessee, including spotted fever rickettsiosis, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. -
July 7, 2025
Quick action to treat young dancer’s rare heart condition a testament to what multidisciplinary teams can do
Bystanders assumed the healthy teen — who has danced for nine years, six of those competitively — was overheated or exhausted. Conscious, though unresponsive to questions, Zoe quickly worsened. -
July 7, 2025
Vanderbilt Health at forefront of improving head and neck surgery with fluorescence imaging to ‘light up’ nerves
A new study identified a safe and effective fluorescent imaging agent that can assist surgeons in visualizing — and therefore protecting — nerves during surgery. -
July 2, 2025
Scientific advances helping to increase the number of available organs for transplantation
These advances include emerging techniques of rehabilitating organs that would once have been discarded as unusable.