On Feb. 11, the Nashville Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) dedicated its dialysis unit to William Stone, MD, a nephrologist and professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who retired from VUMC and VAMC in December after 50 years.
Beta-1 integrin, a critical component of epithelial extracellular matrix receptors, is essential for normal lung function in adulthood, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have discovered.
Infectious diseases specialist Thomas Talbot, MD, MPH, professor of Medicine and chief hospital epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, spoke recently about the current novel coronavirus outbreak in China.
Circulating lipids have been proposed to influence the risk of breast, colorectal and other common cancers, but results from conventional epidemiologic studies have been inconsistent.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center tied for first place as the busiest heart transplant program by volume in the United States in 2019.
With the help of a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center will use computational methods to shed light on suicidal ideation and its relationship to attempted suicide, predict suicidal ideation and suicide…
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Medicine welcomes Howard Markel, MD, PhD as the 2020 John M. Leonard Visiting Scholar. His lecture, “Helix: The Epic Chase to discover the Structure of DNA” will be Thursday, Feb. 6 at 8 a.m. in 208 Light Hall.
Studies that started in zebrafish have now pointed to a role for collagen secretion in a wide variety of clinical symptoms — and in a newly identified genetic syndrome.
Russell Rothman, MD, MPP, professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Health Policy, Ingram Professor of Integrative and Population Health, and Vice President for Population Health Research, has been named as the new director of the Institute for Medicine and Public Health (IMPH), and Senior…
Vanderbilt’s Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) has demonstrated its effectiveness at helping employees lose weight as a means of preventing Type 2 diabetes and has received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand the program using telehealth.
