This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast:

• A healthy inspiration sparks a breakthrough program fighting childhood obesity.
• Is it the flu? A special tool to check your symptoms at home.
• Why this Vanderbilt student wants to be ‘King of the Nerds’

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