According to a study recently published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for adults with heart failure reliably predicted hospitalizations and mortality and outperformed all other electronic health record variables.

Susan G. Komen has awarded $10.8 million in new research grants that will help propel innovative science and deliver hope to those facing breast cancer. The grant recipients include Department of Medicine faculty Drs. Tuya Pal (Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology) and Ben Ho Park (Hematology and Oncology).

A lifelong passion for training and mentoring generations of endocrinologists has culminated in an endowment to support a new endocrinology fellowship in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism. This is the result of an estate gift from the late Lawrence (Larry) Wolfe, MD, a Vanderbilt University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member, and his wife, Sarah (Sally) Wolfe.

The findings, authored by Department of Medicine Drs. Tina Hartert, Dawn Newcomb and colleagues, suggest a possible way to identify susceptibility to - and prevent the development of - asthma and other severe respiratory problems later in life.

An analysis of genetic sequencing data from more than 34,000 people over a 17-year period by researchers at VUMC, including by Alex Bick, MD, PhD (Genetic Medicine), has found that persistent cytopenia appears to be a critical step in the progression of CHIP to blood cancer.

In a study recently published in JCI Insight by Ela Knapik, PhD (Genetic Medicine) and colleagues, used zebrafish to study what happens in human cells when the transport protein expressed by SEC24C is lacking.

According to a newly published study in the Annals of Internal Medicine by Andreana Holowatyj, PhD, MSCI (Hematology and Oncology), and colleagues, cases of appendiceal cancer tripled for Americans born between 1976 to 1984, and quadrupled for those born between 1981 and 1989.

Faced with great challenge and uncertainty, those who make up the department’s faculty have remained true to their mission and completed “outstanding, life-saving work,” Dr. Freedman said.

Amanda Doran, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular Medicine), is corresponding author of the paper, which was published last month in the American Heart Association's journal, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.