Reporter Feb 15 2013
-
Factor CITED in pediatric liver cancer
Vanderbilt researchers report that they have found a factor involved in the persistence of embryonic cells implicated in childhood liver cancer. Read MoreFeb 20, 2013
-
Pancreas cells full of potential
Adult cells in the pancreas can return to a less mature state – and then become a different cell type, like the beta cells that secrete insulin. Read MoreFeb 18, 2013
-
Cure in sight for kissing bug’s bite
It’s possible to cure Chagas disease – a deadly tropical infection transmitted by “kissing bugs” – in a mouse model. Read MoreFeb 15, 2013
-
Meeting looks at VUMC’s financial picture
At a midyear Clinical Enterprise Town Hall meeting, those attending were updated on Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s year-to-date performance and the ongoing impact of separate pieces of federal legislation — the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Budget Control Act of 2011, which has come to be known as sequestration. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Vermund, Polack elected to American Pediatric Society
Two Vanderbilt physicians, both in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, have been elected to the American Pediatric Society (APS), one of the nation's oldest and most renowned academic societies. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
NIH lauds Rex’s ideas for future of vision research
Tonia Rex, Ph.D., assistant professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute, was recently named one of 10 winners of the National Institutes of Health competition for ideas on the future of vision research. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Vaccination still key defense as flu season continues
As is the case throughout the country, this year’s flu season in Middle Tennessee is hitting elderly people particularly hard. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Photo: Distinguished visitor
(photo by Joe Howell) The Clinic at Mercury Courts staff recently welcomed Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives Beth Harwell, right, for a tour of the new facility, a comprehensive clinic that provides care to the homeless and transient populations in Nashville. Here, Aaron Scott greets… Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Harvard’s Kahn set for Discovery Lecture
C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., renowned for his contributions to the field of insulin signaling and its role in type 2 diabetes and obesity, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 21. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
VUMC’s Hoy lands transplant provider award
Haley Hoy, Ph.D., ACNP, recently received the 2013 Advanced Transplant Provider Award from the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) during its Winter Symposium. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Cell connections key in valve disease
A protein that connects cells together participates in the calcification that occurs in heart valve disease. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Beck departing VU after 20 years
After more than two decades of service, Warren E. Beck, associate vice chancellor for Health Affairs and senior vice president for Finance, is departing Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Two from VUMC help lead national informatics group
Vanderbilt’s Department of Biomedical Informatics remains exceptionally well represented on the nine-member executive committee of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Panel to discuss global children’s health
Experts in global pediatric health from Vanderbilt, Save the Children and the Tennessee Department of Health are set to discuss the major challenges health providers face to keep children healthy. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Photo: Dance Marathon
After students, families and the community danced the night away for 13.1 hours, the Vanderbilt University Dance Marathon student executive committee unveiled how much money had been raised for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Research reveals clues to childhood respiratory virus
New Vanderbilt-led research published in the Feb. 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has identified the relatively unknown human metapneumovirus (MPV) as the second most common cause of severe bronchiolitis in young children. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Device helps ease child’s overactive bladder burden
Until a year ago, Kate Lamons would slip into her mother’s classroom during school to change clothes, hopefully fast enough that she could return to her own class before anyone noticed that her clothes were wet from an overactive bladder. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
New collaborative to gather hernia surgery outcomes data
Each year, more than 350,000 people in the United States undergo surgery to treat painful ventral abdominal hernias, a condition that affects up to 30 percent of patients who have had any kind of abdominal surgery. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
-
Children’s Hospital nationally ranked by ‘Parents’ magazine
The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has earned two top spots among "Parents" magazine’s best of children’s hospital lists released last week. Read MoreFeb 12, 2013
-
VU, GlaxoSmithKline team to develop novel treatments for severe obesity
Vanderbilt University has signed a collaboration agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies for severe obesity. Read MoreFeb 11, 2013