Clinical

How a Combination of Covid Lawsuits and Media Coverage Keeps Misinformation Churning

Jul 16, 2023 at 11:46 pm by Staff

  By Darius Tahir, KFF Health News   Public health has had its day in court lately. And another day. And another day. Over the course of the pandemic, laws.... Read More

Musical Rhythms Shown to Improve Language Processing in Children With Developmental Language Disorder

Jul 16, 2023 at 09:28 pm by Staff

  Musical rhythms can help children with speech and language processing difficulties in finding their voice by improving their capacity to repeat sentences they just hea.... Read More

Why the Next Big Hope for Alzheimer’s Might Not Help Most Black Patients

Jul 10, 2023 at 01:41 am by Staff

  By Arthur Allen, KFF Health News   The FDA on Thursday gave full approval to what many scientists and doctors believe is the first drug to show promi.... Read More

‘It Was a Bloodbath’: Rare Dialysis Complication Can Kill, and More Could Be Done To Stop It

Jul 10, 2023 at 01:21 am by Staff

  By Brett Kelman, KFF Health News   Nieltje Gedney was half-asleep in her West Virginia home, watching murder mysteries over the hum of a bedside hemodialys.... Read More

Rett syndrome drug studied at Vanderbilt approved for patients

Jul 09, 2023 at 08:27 pm by Staff

by Craig Boerner The first drug to treat the symptoms of Rett syndrome was recently approved, following a Nature Medicine study publishing results from the pivotal.... Read More

Study reveals new clue to gastric cancer

Jul 09, 2023 at 08:23 pm by Staff

by Bill Snyder Fibroblast cells play key roles in the repair of damaged tissue and in pathological scarring. Now, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have unc.... Read More

Thomas Long named executive vice chair for Pediatric Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt

Jul 09, 2023 at 08:21 pm by Staff

  by Erin Wides   Following a national search, Vanderbilt’s Department of Anesthesiology has named Thomas Long, MD, to the role of executive vice chair for.... Read More

Vanderbilt researchers envision the potential to grow new lungs

Jul 09, 2023 at 07:58 pm by Staff

by Bill Snyder Using a four-dimensional microscope that allows them to watch a tissue putting itself together, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have achiev.... Read More

Annulogram and Not MRI, is What the Doctor Ordered for Low Back Pain

Jul 09, 2023 at 07:38 pm by Staff

    MRI’s were once considered the gold-standard for identifying the cause of low back pain. Accumulating reveals that MRIs cannot identify the cause of low.... Read More

Selenium signal found in colorectal cancer: study

Jul 03, 2023 at 06:35 pm by Staff

  by Bill Snyder An antioxidant transporter of the trace mineral selenium that protects against inflammatory bowel disease has the opposite effect in colorectal cance.... Read More