Year: 2012

In June, Tommy Schroader was in the crystal blue waters off Grand Cayman Island petting a giant stingray. Read More

Patients prescribed the diabetes drug metformin have a lower risk for heart attack, stroke and death than patients taking sulfonylurea drugs. Read More

Researchers have discovered that alligators and crocodiles possess one of the most acute senses of touch in the animal kingdom. Read More

Levels of the protein NGAL may be a good predictor of worsening kidney function in patients with acute heart failure. Read More

Watch video of Keith Meador presenting “Religion and Health: Pitfalls and Possibilities” as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute lecture series. The course reviews the historical context and current research and conversations regarding religion and health in American culture. We will examine the significance and implications of our “therapeutic culture”… Read More

Watch video of Christopher Slobogin presenting “Contemporary Debates in Criminal Justice: Interrogation Practices” as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute lecture series. The course explores a number of the hottest topics in criminal justice: the death penalty, the insanity defense, preventive detention, surveillance and other topics relating to investigation… Read More

A new study demonstrates how the brain follows Ben Franklin’s famous dictum, “Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.” Read More

Watch video of two Vanderbilt Divinity School students reflecting on their experiences within the Occupy Nashville movement and their research on the growing need for street pastoral care in “Radical Chaplaincy: Exploring Alternate Forms of Chaplaincy on the Streets of Nashville and Beyond”. Lindsey Krinks and Darria Hudson discussed street chaplaincy,… Read More

Study adds evidence for infectious agents’ role in sarcoidosis, an inflammatory condition that can lead to respiratory failure and death. Read More

Watch video of Marie Fortune present “Wolves in Shepherd’s Clothing: The Institutional Crisis of Clergy Sexual Abuse” as part of the Divinity School’s Carpenter Lecture Series. Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune grew up in North Carolina where she received her undergraduate degree from Duke University. She received her seminary training at… Read More

Environmental toxins may contribute to endometriosis-related infertility by disrupting endometrial response to progesterone. Read More

Commissioner John R. Norris of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is the marquee speaker at the Southeast Clean Energy Transmission Summit Nov. 14 in Nashville. Read More

  Amazing Vanderbilt research has designed a “wearable robot” that can be used by paraplegics to walk again. Vanderbilt’s Barb Cramer takes us on one man’s emotional journey to use the device, designed by Vanderbilt mechanical engineers, to take his first steps since a tragic accident. Read more here… Read More

Even though I’ve spent the majority of my career at Vanderbilt, I still look up when I hear the sound of LifeFlight approaching. And I still notice when injured patients are chronicled in newscasts nearly every night with the steady refrain “taken to Vanderbilt.” Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has stepped up its support of research aimed at cracking the mysteries of the genome, the master DNA code. Read More

Country music group Rascal Flatts hosted a special Halloween performance for patients and their families at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt this week. Read More

Longtime Vanderbilt faculty member S. Julian Gibbs, DDS, Ph.D., professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Emeritus, died Oct. 25. He was 80. Read More

Overly enthusiastic reporting about the promise of scientific discovery has contributed to a “backlash” against science in this country, NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca, Ph.D., said at Vanderbilt University last week. Read More

Following a detailed review by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), all 75 Vanderbilt Medical Group adult primary care physicians and nurse practitioners have received Level 3 designation — the top designation — under the Physician Practice Connections Patient Centered Medical Home voluntary accreditation program. Read More

George McCulloch, deputy chief information officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been named to the board of trustees of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). Read More