Students tap Splittgerber to receive Shovel Award for Outstanding Teaching

Apr 18, 2022 at 12:09 am by Staff

By Kathy Whitney Each year, the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine graduating fourth-year class honors one faculty member with the Shovel Award in recognition of the ex.... Read More

How the Test-to-Treat Pillar of the US Covid Strategy Is Failing Patients

Apr 17, 2022 at 09:50 am by Staff

By Hannah Recht, Kaiser Health News  The federal “test-to-treat” program, announced in March, is meant to reduce covid hospitalizations and deaths by qu.... Read More

Persistent Problem: High C-Section Rates Plague the South

Apr 17, 2022 at 09:41 am by Staff

By Lauren Sausser, Kaiser Health News  All along, Julia Maeda knew she wanted to have her baby naturally. For her, that meant in a hospital, vaginally, without an e.... Read More

Private Equity Ownership of Nursing Homes Triggers Capitol Hill Questions — And a GAO Probe

Apr 17, 2022 at 09:33 am by Staff

By Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News In his State of the Union address last month, President Joe Biden focused attention on how private equity ownership of nursing hom.... Read More

When Symptoms Linger for Weeks, Is It Long Covid?

Apr 17, 2022 at 09:26 am by Staff

By Nina Feldman, WHYY, Kaiser Health News Many Americans are discovering that recovering from covid-19 may take weeks or even months longer than expected, leaving them w.... Read More

Babies Die as Congenital Syphilis Continues a Decade-Long Surge Across the US

Apr 17, 2022 at 09:19 am by Staff

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Kaiser Health News  // For a decade, the number of babies born with syphilis in the U.S. has surged, undeterred. Data released Tuesd.... Read More

A Travel Nurse Leaves Fears of Hospital Drug Tampering Across Three States

Apr 17, 2022 at 09:09 am by Staff

By Brett Kelman, Kaiser Health News Health officials in at least three states are investigating a travel nurse suspected of tampering with and potentially contaminating.... Read More

VUMC Research Team Receives $1 Million to Study Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 on Heart

Apr 15, 2022 at 03:33 pm by Staff

A research team led by Cyndya Shibao, MD, MSCI, associate professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has received a major grant from the Americ.... Read More

Comparing Potential Moral Injury in Veterans and Health Care Workers

Apr 13, 2022 at 09:10 pm by Staff

A study comparing 618 military veterans who deployed to a combat zone after Sept. 11, 2001, and 2,099 health care workers (HCWs) working during the COVID-19 pandemic found sim.... Read More

Additional COVID Vaccine Helps Protect Transplant Patients

Apr 13, 2022 at 08:47 pm by Staff

Additional booster doses of vaccine against COVID-19 are particularly important for those who are immunosuppressed, namely those who have had solid organ transplants, a new st.... Read More