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Fellow tracks post-vaccination bacterial trends
Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellow Annabelle de St. Maurice, M.D., has been awarded a grant to determine the relationship between pneumococcal vaccination and the emergence of certain strains of pneumococcal bacteria not covered by vaccines. Read MoreOct 17, 2013
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Student’s neurosurgical fellowship spurs research
Travis Ladner, a third-year student at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has been selected for a 2013 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) student fellowship award. The award is presented to a medical student every year from a national pool of applicants. Read MoreOct 10, 2013
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Clinic creates path to better heart health for older patients
Thomas Kent has never met a stranger. He is quick to share tales about his time as a music manager in Las Vegas or to pull out one of his favorite one-liners. He says he’s the only Quaker minister in town with a wife behind the pulpit to strike a “bada-bing” after each joke. Read MoreOct 10, 2013
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VUSM student lands Physicians of Tomorrow Award from AMA
Michele Luhm Vigor, a member of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s Class of 2014, has been selected by the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation to receive a Physicians of Tomorrow Award. Read MoreOct 3, 2013
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UCSF’s King to deliver annual Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture
Talmadge King Jr., M.D., chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, will deliver Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's 12th annual Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 15, in 208 Light Hall. Read MoreOct 3, 2013
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Vaccine Research Program lands major NIH renewal
The Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program has received a major contract from the National Institutes of Health to continue its work as one of the nation’s Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units. Read MoreSep 26, 2013
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VU testing vaccine against new flu threat
Vanderbilt’s Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit (VTEU) is one of nine U.S. sites funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to test the effectiveness of a vaccine to protect against the H7N9 bird flu that emerged in China this spring. Read MoreSep 19, 2013
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Options to treat childhood C. diff. infection studied
After more than a month in and out of the hospital with her daughter, Kynslee, Kristen Allen felt she was at the end of her rope. Last spring, the nearly 2-year-old Columbia girl developed diarrhea that wouldn’t go away after taking antibiotics for repeated ear infections. Read MoreSep 12, 2013
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Controversial info release aids VUMC bird flu research
Vanderbilt research shows that human antibodies to the natural strain of H5N1 also protected against a dangerous lab-created airborne strain developed several years ago by scientists in the Netherlands and at the University of Wisconsin. Read MoreSep 5, 2013
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Antipsychotic drug use in children for mood/behavior disorders increases type 2 diabetes risk
Prescribing “atypical” antipsychotic medications to children and young adults with behavioral problems or mood disorders may put them at unnecessary risk for type 2 diabetes, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center study shows. Read MoreAug 22, 2013
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Speed, focus serve nurse in the clinic and on the track
Stephanie Duke, LPN, is quick and focused when she moves from patient to patient at the Vanderbilt Hillsboro Medical Group clinic. She says there is plenty going on here to keep her interest. Read MoreAug 22, 2013
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Vaccine researchers ready as new flu strain evolves
A worrisome new avian influenza virus, called H7N9, emerged this spring in Eastern China. Read MoreAug 22, 2013
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Center for Quality Aging forges community bonds
The Vanderbilt Center for Quality Aging is taking the “bench to bedside” concept of translational research out into the community, forming partnerships with assisted living facilities to examine how evidence can be put into action to improve the care of elders. Read MoreAug 15, 2013
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Students promote interprofessional training programs
Two groups of Vanderbilt students from different disciplines of health care recently completed projects with a common goal: promoting interprofessional training for the next generation of health care professionals. Read MoreAug 8, 2013
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VUSM’s new curriculum gains technological support
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine has created a new office to manage the technical support necessary to make the dramatic shift in educational techniques under Curriculum 2.0. Read MoreAug 1, 2013
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Grant to support team-based compassionate care training
The Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning (VPIL) has received a $183,000 Baptist Healing Trust (BHT) grant to support team-based training called "Coaching for Compassionate Care: Developing a new model for health professions education.” Read MoreAug 1, 2013
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VUMC again recognized for health care equality efforts
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has again been recognized as a leader in LGBT health care equality by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Healthcare Equality Index (HEI). Read MoreAug 1, 2013
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Ceremony marks beginning of medical students’ journey
First-year Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students were asked to feel the weight of responsibility as they donned their white coats in a ceremony July 26 in 208 Light Hall. Read MoreAug 1, 2013
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VU researchers ‘goldsmith’ new RSV vaccine approach
Vanderbilt vaccine researchers are using gold nanotechnology to develop a new approach to making vaccines. Read MoreJul 18, 2013
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Teamwork drives Maternal Fetal Medicine program
When Steffanie and Jon Sawyer were told their unborn son had a spinal birth defect called spina bifida, they decided to travel from their home in the Chicago area to Vanderbilt for fetal surgery. Read MoreJul 18, 2013