A health care system model that offered tobacco cessation treatment to smokers being discharged from a hospital produced a higher rate of tobacco abstinence during the three-month program than referral to a state-based telephone quitline, but the advantage disappeared at six months when both…
People with food allergies are surprisingly less likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, than people without them, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and co-led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Tina Hartert, MD, MPH, has found.
The Vanderbilt Comprehensive Hypertension Center has been awarded renewal of the American Heart Association’s Comprehensive Hypertension Center Certification, to recognize the center’s commitment to following proven, research-based treatment guidelines to care for people with complex or…
When Denis Brock needed to be hospitalized for an infection last fall, she was treated in an unlikely place: her home.
“I think it’s both humbling and exciting to be a part of a research team that’s focused on something that’s so immediately beneficial to those who are waiting for liver transplants, PhD, associate professor of Biomedical Informatics, an author of the study.
Maureen Gannon, PhD, and colleagues investigated the role of the inflammatory lipid signaling molecule PGE2 — acting through EP3 and EP4 receptors — on heart muscle cell contractility and…
Raymond C. Harris, MD, Shirong Cao, MD, PhD, Ming-Zhi Zhang, MD, MSc, and colleagues are studying the role of inflammation in obesity.
Studies by Andrew Glazer, PhD, Giovanni Davogustto, MD, and colleagues found that genetic testing with information from electronic health records can reveal undiagnosed heart rhythm disorders.
Digna Velez Edwards, PhD, and colleagues report in Human Genetics that the uterine fibroid PRS has…
Physician-scientists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center were well represented at the recent annual Joint Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), Association of American Physicians (AAP) and the American Physician-Scientist Association.
