Releases

When you check into a hospital, the odds are one in ten that you will become infected with a strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria as a result of your stay. That is because the problem of drug-resistance has become endemic in today\'s hospitals despite the best efforts of the medical profession. In the United States alone this currently causes about 100,000 deaths per year. Read More

John Geer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, has been awarded the Goldsmith Book Prize for In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns. Read More

The Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee is hosting the state\'s first ever Food Security Summit Saturday, Feb. 16, at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Nashville from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nashville Mayor Karl Dean will address the group at 10 a.m. Read More

One of the ways we defend ourselves against bacterial foes is to "hide" their food, particularly the metals they crave. A multi-disciplinary team led by Vanderbilt University investigators has now discovered that a protein inside certain immune system cells blocks the growth of "staph" bacteria by sopping up manganese and zinc. Read More

The Vanderbilt physician who in the late 1980s established the antipsychotic drug clozapine as the gold standard for treating patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia has improved on his own research. Read More

Vanderbilt University encourages active journalists to apply to attend its 2008 media fellowship, "Immigration: Nation\'s Bedrock or Burden?," April 1-4, 2008, in Nashville, Tenn. Read More

Complex issues around the black church\'s response to sexual issues will be explored at a public conference at Vanderbilt University. The "Loving the Body? Sexuality and Black Churches" conference will be held Feb. 21-23 at various locations on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

A Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management professor is co-author of two award-winning papers that call into question a concept that has become central to marketing efforts in recent years: A customer\'s intention to recommend a product or service is the single most important predictor of future loyalty to the company. Read More

The first large, multi-center trial of a drug developed at Vanderbilt to treat dangerous pulmonary hypertension in children has been launched. The drug, Citrupress, is an intravenous form of the amino acid citrulline, which the body produces naturally and which is also found in watermelon rinds. Read More

Beth Fortune, associate vice chancellor for public affairs at Vanderbilt University, will serve as interim head of Vanderbilt\'s Division of Public Affairs beginning June 1, announced Interim Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos. Read More

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive and NBC Universal have formed a new partnership to provide streaming video access for students, researchers and faculty at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Read More

If you are in love this Valentine\'s Day, you have more than one reason to celebrate. Being involved in a healthy, loving relationship is good for the heart, says Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute cardiologist, Julie Damp, M.D. Read More

Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt professor of political science and law, has been nominated to the National Council on the Humanities, the White House announced. The appointment is for a six-year term. Read More

Pink fingers, toes and lips. Those were the things 2-year-old Amenah Al-Bayati\'s mother noticed when she saw her daughter for the first time after open heart surgery to repair a serious birth defect. Read More

Michael Schoenfeld, Vanderbilt University\'s chief communications, government and community relations officer and spokesman for more than a decade, will leave at the end of the academic year to become the vice president for public affairs and government relations at Duke University in North Carolina, effective July 1. Read More

This month, Vanderbilt University Medical Center will begin routine and rapid HIV testing of all adults seen in the Emergency Department unless they "opt out" of the procedure. Read More

The predictive power of U.S. financial market returns in January for market performance the rest of the year has long been lore on Wall Street. Given the tumultuous start to 2008, investors may want to consider recent research by a professor from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management that finally puts some real evidence behind the legendary "January Barometer." The forecast: a tough year ahead. Read More

Bill Lambert, a second-year student at Vanderbilt\'s Owen Graduate School of Management, is the first recipient of the Max Adler scholarship. Lambert is the son of Bill and Harva Leigh Lambert of Ladue, Mo. Read More

Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center researchers are reporting that melatonin, an over-the-counter and relatively inexpensive dietary supplement taken for insomnia and jet lag, shows promise in treating children with autism who have difficulty falling asleep. Read More

In addition to the loss of his mother, Kerri, 11-month-old Kyson Stowell\'s family also lost everything they owned in the devastating tornado that struck CastilianSprings, Tenn. Read More