Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Events from scholarly presentations to a concert will mark three major events at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Tuesday, June 17: the dedication the new $110 million Medical Research Building IV; the renovation of L.C. Langford Auditorium; and the unveiling of a sculpture by world-renowned artist Frank Stella. Read More

15 high school students have been selected for Vanderbilt's Young Scholars Medical Program. Read More

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn), who has dealt with the issue of health insurance as a businessman, as mayor of Chattanooga and as Tennessee's Commissioner of Finance and Administration, will hold a roundtable on health care at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville on Tuesday, May 27. Read More

The Music City Quarter Midget Racing Association will hold a charity race on Saturday, May 31, to benefit Vanderbilt LifeFlight\'s transport program. Read More

Genetic variation in the DNA of mitochondria ñ the "power plants" of cells ñ contributes to a person's risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), Vanderbilt investigators report May 7 in the journal PLoS ONE. Read More

Grant recipients were announced this week for the 2008 Vanderbilt Health at One Hundred Oaks Community Grant Program. Read More

Lawn mower-related injuries are among the most horrific seen at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. They are devastating to families, and doctors say they see them each spring. Read More

Confronted with evidence that one in six children are battling some type of developmental disorder, the nation\'s leading autism researchers seek to discover the impact of environmental agents on autism risk. Read More

Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., associate vice chancellor for Research for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been named interim dean of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one of three clinical sites testing new products to replace burned skin as part of a massive federal grant program announced Thursday. The collaborative effort is expected to boost treatment options for soldiers injured in war zones. Read More

A new study shows that children with obesity-related diabetes are reporting serious difficulties in making basic lifestyle changes that could save them from a lifetime of complications. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has unveiled its new Doctor in Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) degree in time for fall 2008 enrollment. Read More

The Vanderbilt Eye Institute (VEI) is hosting an open house today at 5 p.m. for its new state-of-the-art patient care and research facility. Read More

For many athletes, their repaired ACL knee tears are causing new problems in the prime of their life, including debilitating arthritis and poor outcome when they re-tearing the knee ligament. Now in groundbreaking research, in the largest orthopaedics study ever, doctors are looking for the best way to fix re-torn… Read More

African-Americans are far more likely to be diagnosed with and to die from colorectal cancer than whites or other minority groups. Despite this increased risk, a new study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers found that African-Americans are far less likely to undergo colonoscopy screening than whites, even when both groups have a family history of colorectal cancer. The study was published in the March 24 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Read More

The United States health care system needs to brace for a severe shortage of nurses, according to findings by Peter Buerhaus, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Douglas Staiger, Ph.D., from Dartmouth University, and David Auerbach, Ph.D., of the Congressional Budget Office. Read More

Although she\'s just 15, Katlyn Vacanti-Mitchell has already battled leukemia and started her own foundation to help families with sick children at Monroe Carell Jr. Children\'s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt Heart Lebanon will host an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, March 26, at 4 p.m. The clinic, which opened in February, is located at 1420 W. Baddour Pkwy., across the street from University Medical Center. Read More

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has been selected as a Blue Distinction Center for Complex and Rare CancersSM by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, in collaboration with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Read More

Cancer patients from the Southeastern United States who are treated with the drug cetuximab, known commercially as Erbitux, are far more likely to suffer severe allergic reactions than patients in other regions of the country. Read More