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Initiative stresses safe patient handling techniques

Providing the best care for patients and their families also means making patient handling safety a priority. Read More

Photo: Discovery Lecture Collins

Sir Rory Collins, MBBS, co-director of the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit at Oxford, talks about the need for large-scale population studies during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. Read More

Lippincott-Schwartz to discuss cellular secrets at Discovery Lecture

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D., whose pioneering imaging techniques have helped reveal the surprisingly fast-paced inner life of the cell, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, April 18. Read More

VUMC named among nation’s top 100 hospitals

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has once again been named among the “100 Great Hospitals in America” by Becker’s Hospital Review. Read More

Photo: It takes a village

Christmas Village, a three-day shopping extravaganza run by a volunteer board made up of Pi Beta Phi alumni, raised $336,000 for the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center from its 2012 event. Read More

Therapy helps regenerate child’s undeveloped bones

Janelly Martinez-Amador was born with thin, fragile bones, and by 3, she had no visible bones on X-rays. Initially, doctors weren’t sure she would survive her first birthday. Read More

Mayor Dean engages with Divinity students on community service

The strong value placed on community volunteerism is among the reasons Nashville has received extensive national press for its enviable quality of life, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean recently told Vanderbilt Divinity students. Read More

Moses receives AACR’s lifetime achievement in research award

Harold L. (Hal) Moses, M.D., professor of Medicine and Pathology, acting chair of Cancer Biology and director emeritus of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has received the 10th annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research. Read More

New clinic links pediatric sarcoma treatment services

J. Carlton Smith noticed severe pain in his knee five years ago during a lacrosse tournament. Smith, then 13 years old, never imagined hearing the diagnosis doctors would give him: osteosarcoma, a cancer of the bone. Read More

Newborn screening program championed at VU helps save boy

John Isaac Stone Seabolt was born Feb. 26, less than two months after a new state law went into effect encouraging the screening of newborn babies for “silent” heart defects. Read More

Leukemia culprit’s cellular actions

Overexpression of a gene that is a common culprit in leukemia induces stem cell-like features in T cells, which may enable the cells to become cancerous. Read More

Possible severe weather predicted for Thursday; take steps to prepare

The National Weather Service is predicting possible severe weather, including possible isolated tornados, for Thursday in the Nashville area from approximately 8 a.m. until late afternoon. Read More

Ford wins SEC Faculty Achievement Award

Vanderbilt's Donna Ford is one of 14 university professors being recognized by the Southeastern Conference for achievement in research and scholarship. Read More

SEEN: Brains, minds and education

In the fall of 2012, Vanderbilt launched the nation’s first educational neuroscience doctoral program. This interdisciplinary program brings together Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development and the Vanderbilt Brain Institute to research educational issues within the context of brain science. Read More