Community & Giving Archive — Page 31 of 36
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July 23, 2015
Young professionals bolster cancer research efforts
With a basketball tucked under his arm, 7-year-old Roger Waynick climbed on top of his dad’s black Tahoe SUV with the intention of sailing upward through the air toward the basketball goal. He was poised to make the most epic dunk ever. -
June 25, 2015
VUMC, Meharry and State Health Department receive NIH grant to establish AIDS research center
Vanderbilt University has received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research with Meharry Medical College and the Tennessee Department of Health. -
June 25, 2015
Benefit concert for organ donation exceeds fundraising goals
In only its second year, Songs for Life, a benefit concert to raise awareness and celebrate organ donation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has far exceeded fundraising goals. -
June 18, 2015
MVA study shows benefits of pharmacy care in diabetes treatment
Underserved patients with sub-optimally controlled type 2 diabetes who were cared for by pharmacists were more adherent to their medication regimen and had better blood sugar control than those who did not have a pharmacist in their care team. -
June 11, 2015
Former heart patient inspired to create Discovery Science Fund
Two vastly different causes of heart failure, both of which can devastate a patient’s life, are being studied at Vanderbilt University Medical Center thanks, in part, to the generosity of a grateful patient whose own damaged heart was repaired at Vanderbilt more than five years ago. -
June 4, 2015
NIH director’s Discovery Lecture covers biomedical research landscape
Last week in Langford Auditorium, Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), delivered what he referred to as a “romp through an awful lot of the landscape of biomedical research.” -
May 28, 2015
Dietitian and friends donate chemo care bags to VICC patients
A Nashville-based dietitian who lost her mother to cancer is using the power of social media to raise funds for chemo care bags for cancer patients.