Month: October 2013

See how a wireless capsule could help during minimally invasive surgeries Why magnesium and vitamin D are a match made in heaven And do you really see the S in the USA network logo? Watch this QuickVU roundup of research stories. [vucastblurb]… Read More

Clinicians should be cautious about prescribing newer fluoroquinolone antibiotics to patients with TB risk factors; doing so may jeopardize the use of these agents against TB. Read More

John Fahrenholz, says that this time of year can be a real challenge for people with allergies—and for the rest of us, too. Read More

Matt Rubinger, BA’10, learned to authenticate designer handbags as a teenager. Today he is in charge of the luxury accessories division at Heritage Auctions. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center will participate in a national trial to see if outcomes for critically injured patients with uncontrolled bleeding can be improved by administering plasma to these patients while in flight to the hospital. Read More

Richard Carparelli was named the new executive director of the American Judicature Society, which is based at Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

A non-invasive measure of electrical brain activity in preterm infants predicts cognitive and communication functioning during early childhood, according to a new Vanderbilt University study. Read More

Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant announced as part of the National Robotics Initiative. Read More

A team of computer engineers from Vanderbilt University’s Institute of Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), including Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Akos Ledeczi, PhD’95, has developed inexpensive hardware and software that can transform an Android smartphone into a simple shooter location system. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have identified a key regulator of cell division. Read More

Jae Lee, a senior majoring in political science and philosophy, may at first glance look like any other student at Vanderbilt. But at 24 years old, he has job experience that few other seniors can claim: two years of service in the South Korean military. Read More

A multidisciplinary study conducted by the combined efforts of Vanderbilt University graduate students has led to the first evidence that abnormal messenger RNA export from the nucleus to the cytoplasm can cause human disease. Read More

The Vanderbilt Transplant Center, one of the largest organ transplant programs in the Southeast, is on pace to surpass last year’s transplant totals with 254 solid organ transplantations to date. Read More

Neurologists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and patient care teams 18 miles away at Williamson Medical Center (WMC) will take advantage of network technology to provide remote neurological patient examinations on an urgent basis. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center will be one of several area hospitals and federal, state and local agencies participating in the 2013 Regional Hospitals Fall Severe Weather Exercise on Thursday, Nov. 7. Read More

Beginning Oct. 29, Vanderbilt University Hospital will use a new process for patient handovers between nurses in the adult Emergency Department and nurses on inpatient units. Read More

Kate Thurman, 9, shows one of the “Beanie Boos” she donated to patients at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to Stephanie Van Dyke, the hospital’s director of Volunteer Services. Read More

Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students are invited to register online to attend the 2013 State of the Adult Clinical Enterprise address by David Posch, CEO of Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics and executive director of Vanderbilt Medical Group, to be delivered Wednesday, Nov. 6 at two locations — at 7 a.m. in Williamson County at the Franklin Marriott, 700 Cool Springs Blvd., and again at 4 p.m. on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center campus at 208 Light Hall. Read More

A new Web-based tool is helping Vanderbilt research coordinators assemble accurate billing plans more quickly. Read More

With the aid of a two-year, $487,000 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a Vanderbilt research team will develop a reusable model to promote better patient engagement with the health care team through delivery of consumer-friendly pharmacogenetic information. Read More