HCA Healthcare and Grail Collaborate to Advance Comprehensive Cancer Care with Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening

Oct 17, 2023 at 08:29 am by Staff

  HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute, part of HCA Healthcare, and GRAIL, LLC, a heal.... Read More

VUMC scientists record powerful signal in the brain’s white matter

Oct 16, 2023 at 03:14 pm by Staff

  By Bill Snyder The human brain is made up of two kinds of matter: the nerve cell bodies (gray matter), which process sensation, control voluntary movement, and enable.... Read More

Initiative seeks to aid youth at risk for suicide

Oct 16, 2023 at 02:50 pm by Staff

  by Jessica Pasley   Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has joined a national initiative to better identify and care for youth at risk for.... Read More

Ellen Wright Clayton, MD: How to overcome mistrust of medical science

Oct 16, 2023 at 02:37 pm by Staff

   By Bill Snyder The public’s mistrust of medical science, including vaccination, is being driven in part by a top-down research enterprise that does not gi.... Read More

Stevenson named chair of Department of Health Policy

Oct 16, 2023 at 02:35 pm by Staff

  By Jill Clendening   David Stevenson, PhD, MS, professor of Health Policy, has been named chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medi.... Read More

Student researchers at VUMC earn accolades for their report

Oct 16, 2023 at 02:32 pm by Staff

  By Bill Snyder   A research paper co-authored by 23 high school and undergraduate students participating in Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s As.... Read More

More work needed on plans of safe care for infants affected by maternal substance abuse

Oct 16, 2023 at 02:29 pm by Staff

  By Nancy Humphrey A Vanderbilt University Medical Center study published recently in Child Welfare of “plans of safe care (POSC)” for infants af.... Read More

Study tracks clinical team engagement with health records by patient race/ethnicity

Oct 16, 2023 at 02:27 pm by Staff

  by Paul Govern At two large academic medical centers a review of electronic health record (EHR) user access logs found that EHRs of adult inpatients from minority rac.... Read More

Tennessee State University respiratory care students awarded scholarships from VUMC

Oct 16, 2023 at 02:24 pm by Staff

  In addressing the need for more respiratory therapists, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has awarded 10 scholarships to students enrolled in the program at Tennes.... Read More

Nine Nashville State surgical technology students awarded scholarships from VUMC

Oct 16, 2023 at 02:22 pm by Staff

  The partnership between Nashville State Community College and Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s programs in allied health continues to produce successful ed.... Read More