Research Archive — Page 41 of 131
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April 19, 2023
Four elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Four Vanderbilt University faculty members were recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. -
April 13, 2023
Low-professionalism residents later draw higher patient complaints: study
A Vanderbilt study finds a strong association between lower ratings for interpersonal communication skills among medical residents in their last year of training and greater likelihood of unsolicited patient complaints among doctors during their first year of employment after training. -
April 12, 2023
Research identifies new target that may prevent blood cancer
An international coalition of biomedical researchers co-led by Vanderbilt's Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, has determined a new way to measure the growth rate of precancerous clones of blood stem cells that one day could help doctors lower their patients’ risk of blood cancer. -
April 11, 2023
VUMC-led trial shows two investigational drugs are ineffective for treating severe COVID-19
A Vanderbilt-led study evaluating two investigational drugs to treat severe COVID-19 demonstrated that neither drug was effective. -
April 11, 2023
COVID on Twitter: town vs. country
A natural language processing analysis of 407 million tweets from May 2020 to January 2022 captures the rural-urban divide regarding COVID-19. -
April 10, 2023
The problem with the problem list
Algorithms to infer missing problems and suggest that they be added to electronic health records improved problem list completeness, with benefits for clinical care, patient comprehension of health conditions and population health. -
April 6, 2023
A ‘supermere’ method for biomarker discovery
Vanderbilt researchers have developed a method for isolating extracellular vesicles and nanoparticles — a complex transport system involved in health and disease — which will improve biomarker discovery and the identification of therapeutic targets.