Releases

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) are co-hosting one of the nation's largest educational events for individuals who suffer from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Read More

Fidel Castro's serious illness could signal bumpy times ahead for the Cuban government: "When you have dictatorships that revolve around the persona of one individual, they tend to be very brittle," according to political scientist Mitchell Seligson. Read More

Reddish-brown crystals of a radioactive mineral called monazite can act as microscopic clocks that allow geologists to date rock formations that have been altered by the action of high-temperature fluids, a process that frequently leads to the formation of rich ore deposits. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $2 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to create a comprehensive program to help train and educate those who care for elderly patients. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently began offering a new treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) that may improve, and in some cases restore, patients' vision. Read More

Nashville's Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst has joined William Faulkner, David Bowie, Jackson Pollack and other luminaries in L'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, an Order of France recognizing significant contributions to the arts and literature. Read More

Paul Ragan, M.D., associate professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, is available for interviews on the Israel/Hezbollah Conflict. He can address a wide range of topics in dealing with psychiatry issues in the military including acute stress disorders that are often rampant throughout a community when hundreds of thousands of people are displaced. Read More

The proposed trip of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the Middle East will undoubtedly encourage many to draw parallels to Henry Kissinger's famed shuttle diplomacy after the Yom Kippur War in October 1973, according to Vanderbilt University Professor of History Thomas Alan Schwartz. Read More

Singer-songwriters Victoria Shaw, Jim Photoglo and Don Henry will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, as part of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Read More

Three Vanderbilt political scientists are available to discuss the 2006 Tennessee U.S. Senate race. Read More

People who suffer from severe ulcerative colitis may find relief from a new drug that is being tested at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, in collaboration with investigators at Johns Hopkins University, are beginning a Phase I trial to test a new vaccine against the West Nile virus. Read More

As the number of foreign-born health care workers in the United States has risen, so has the potential for transmitting tuberculosis in health-care settings. Read More

The launching of several missiles by North Korea on July 4 could prompt Japan's leaders to increase defense and military spending, something China and North Korea would not like to see, according to James Auer, director of the Center for U.S-Japan Studies and Cooperation at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The study that led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to change its recommendations for giving flu shots to children is published in the July 6 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are attempting to short circuit the progression of Parkinson's disease by implanting stimulation devices into the brains of Parkinson's patients earlier on in the course of their disease. Read More

Every year, around the Fourth of July, experts at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt see fireworks-related injuries -- everything from burns and abrasions to serious eye damage, and even blindness. This year, doctors say, they hope parents will opt for a professional fireworks show rather than something in the back yard, put on by amateurs. National statistics show 10 percent of firework injuries are sustained by toddlers and injuries are most likely when children have fireworks without adequate supervision. Read More

Sten H. Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., the director of The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and a Pediatric Infectious Disease research epidemiologist at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt has been selected as the primary investigator to lead the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) for the newly restructured HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management has announced four new faculty members to join the full-time teaching staff this fall. Read More

The Tennessee High School Press Association is transferring its archives of awards, records and student achievement to Vanderbilt University after spending the last 60 years under the authority of the University of Tennessee's College of Communication. Read More