Participants in the BEETHOVEN study will be randomized to receive two C. difficile vaccine doses six months apart, or a placebo, to learn if an investigational vaccine is safe and can help prevent C. difficile infection in people age 65 and older.

Vanderbilt Health’s Firefly program continues to lead the way in caring for pregnant women with substance use disorder.

Using Fitbits, researchers set out to discover how many additional steps patients need to reduce risks of chronic disease.

Large language models were tested on cancer patient notes from two academic medical centers and seven drug trials.

The potential for a retinal screening test was bolstered by a recent discovery that clearance of amyloid-beta oligomers by immune cells in retinal blood vessels was disrupted in donor eyes from individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, compared to age-matched, healthy control eyes.

These findings shed light on disruptions in normal blood cell development (hematopoiesis) that may be shared by sickle cell disease and clonal hematopoiesis.

Badly burned as a child, Bohannon is committed to developing better therapies for burn patients.