Family establishes ERDie Project in memory of daughter, Emma Ryleigh Dixon, to support pediatric bone cancer research at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

People who sign up can help researchers assess whether environmental factors may be the culprits behind the region’s higher cancer burden.

Under the old system, genetic counselors would complete paper requisitions, and results would return as PDFs that had to be manually uploaded into patients' electronic health records.

Researchers analyzed 1,206 patient cases and found that OR reconstruction cases had a higher median baseline cost of $2,308 compared to $987 for clinic procedures.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is extensively involved in partnerships with the military that both assist individuals as they transition out of service to be civilian veterans and help active-duty military medical personnel maintain their critical skills needed during deployment.

Researchers introduce a biomarker to indicate whether someone is struggling with the inflexible thinking associated with the disorder.

But this class of medicines, which includes antibiotics, can cause more harm than good when overused. That overuse can lead to antimicrobial resistance.