Richard Peek, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center, has been appointed to a five-year term as editor-in-chief of the medical journal Gastroenterology beginning July 2016.

Changes in the kidney can limit the blood pressure-lowering effects of thiazide diuretics, a new study reports.

A particular genetic mutation combined with an urban environment increases the risk of severe disease in children infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an international team of investigators has found.

Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered a cleft in a chromosome-binding protein that may hold the key to stopping most cancers in their tracks.

Nominations for this year’s Vanderbilt Prize Scholar are now being accepted. The deadline is April 24.

Melanoma patients whose tumors test positive for mutations in the NRAS gene were more likely to benefit from new immunotherapy drugs, according to a new study led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators.

A healthier heart could prevent Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.