Healthcare Solutions
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New tools help surgeons find liver tumors, not nick blood vessels
The liver is a particularly squishy, slippery organ, prone to shifting both deadly tumors and life-preserving blood vessels by inches between the time they’re discovered on a CT scan and when the patient is lying on an operating room table. Vanderbilt University’s Michael Miga and his team have published the potential solution. Read MoreJul 17, 2017
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Alex’s Lemonade grant allows new engineering grad student to join neuroblastoma fight
Graduate student Kyle Garland is diving into his studies with eight weeks of intense immunology research. Read MoreJul 5, 2017
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Cotton candy capillaries lead to circuit boards that dissolve when cooled
Leon Bellan made a dissolving circuit board that, so far, just turns on an LED light. Its potential applications are far more promising. Read MoreJun 26, 2017
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How six cups of ground coffee can improve nose, throat surgery
Vanderbilt engineers have designed a “granular jamming cap” filled with coffee grounds that can improve the accuracy of the sophisticated “GPS” system that surgeons use for nose and throat surgery. Read MoreJun 20, 2017
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Heart disease incidence down for men in Tennessee
There's good and bad news in the new Tennessee Men's Health Report Card. Read MoreJun 14, 2017
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Risky business
Vanderbilt investigators have developed hospital readmission models that may help prevent payment penalties to hospitals when patients are readmitted too soon after discharge. Read MoreApr 5, 2017
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Vanderbilt investigator lands Stand Up To Cancer grant for “smart” nanoparticles cancer research
John Wilson, Ph.D., assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, has received an Innovative Research Grant from Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C). Wilson is among 10 early-career scientists to receive the grant awards focused on immuno-oncology. Read MoreApr 3, 2017
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A molecular clue to longevity
In budding yeast, accumulation of a certain type of RNA in the nucleus increased life span, offering a new clue to longevity. Read MoreMar 31, 2017
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University Course students meet with legislators during visit to General Assembly
Students from a University Course on the nation's health care policies spent an immersive day at the Tennessee State Capitol recently, meeting with legislators and discussing issues. Read MoreMar 6, 2017
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Organ-on-a-chip mimics heart’s biomechanical properties
Scientists at Vanderbilt University have created a three-dimensional organ-on-a-chip that can mimic the heart’s amazing biomechanical properties in order to study cardiac disease, develop heart drugs. Read MoreFeb 22, 2017
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Improving therapies for GI tumors
A signaling protein overexpressed in upper gastrointestinal cancers is an attractive therapeutic target. Read MoreFeb 20, 2017
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Hospice and Heart
Frequently busy with meetings, planning sessions and administrative responsibilities, Alive Hospice President and CEO Anna-Gene O’Neal welcomes the chance to slip out of her office and spend time with residents and staff in Alive’s residence near downtown Nashville. On this particular rainy morning, she sits by resident Knox Ownby’s bed… Read MoreFeb 19, 2017
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New technique helps ease ear tumor surgery
Last fall, the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center became the second facility in the country and third in the world to use a fully endoscopic surgical technique to remove an acoustic neuroma, a rare benign tumor on the balance and hearing nerves. Read MoreFeb 16, 2017
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Protocol standardizes care for pregnant women on opiates
Complications related to opioid abuse occur in 54,000 pregnancies annually in the United States, and Tennessee ranks among the top 10 states in the number of opioid-dependent pregnant women. Read MoreFeb 16, 2017
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Heart transplant program at VUMC reaches new milestone
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is home to the second busiest heart transplant program in the country, according to the most recent data released by the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN). Read MoreFeb 2, 2017
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Early experience with federal health coverage suggests how future Medicaid reforms may work
Proposed Medicaid reforms are similar to the capped federal financing system in place during the '50s and early '60s, when states generally reimbursed a much smaller proportion of health care for the needy. Read MoreFeb 1, 2017
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Detecting inflammatory bowel disease during a colonoscopy
Vanderbilt researchers have developed a new optical sensor that can accurately detect different types of inflammatory bowel disease and can be easily integrated into routine colonoscopy exams. Read MoreFeb 1, 2017
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Vanderbilt biomedical engineer receives presidential award for advanced wound healing research
Biomedical engineer Craig Duvall has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to support his research into advanced wound healing technology. Read MoreJan 31, 2017
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Access to health care strengthens communities: Vanderbilt study
A new study shows that access to health insurance can help hold a community together socially, and lack of it can contribute to the fraying of neighborhood cohesion. The study, Beyond Health Effects? Examining the Social Consequences of Community Levels of Uninsurance Pre-ACA, published by the… Read MoreJan 16, 2017
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds study of health, economic effects of LGBT-related laws
A trans-institutional team of Vanderbilt social scientists and medical professionals will look at how laws affecting LGBT individuals and families affect their health and the economy. Read MoreDec 19, 2016