Legal Pot Is More Potent Than Ever — And Still Largely Unregulated

May 09, 2023 at 11:46 am by Staff

By David Hilzenrath, KFF Health News Marijuana and other products containing THC, the plant’s main psychoactive ingredient, have grown more potent and more dangero.... Read More

Can a Fetus Be an Employee? States Are Testing the Boundaries of Personhood After ‘Dobbs’

May 09, 2023 at 02:32 am by Staff

  By Bram Sable-Smith, KFF Health News   Kaitlyn Anderson was six months pregnant when a driver killed her and a Missouri Department of Transportation collea.... Read More

Biden Administration Issues New Warning About Medical Credit Cards

May 09, 2023 at 02:24 am by Staff

  By Noam N. Levey KFF Health News   The Biden administration on Thursday cautioned Americans about the growing risks of medical credit cards and other loans.... Read More

Celebrating nurses and their invaluable impact on our communities

May 09, 2023 at 01:37 am by Staff

  Many healthcare workers go into this field due to a passion that was inspired by a previous hospital experience. For me, that was one of my grandpa’s nurses. She.... Read More

Harris named Department of Medicine’s executive vice chair for Clinical Affairs

May 08, 2023 at 08:59 pm by Staff

  by Jill Clendening   Bryan Harris, MD, MPH, MMHC, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Medicine at Va.... Read More

Pediatric Oral Immunotherapy Clinic launched

May 08, 2023 at 08:51 pm by Staff

  by Christina Echegaray   Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has launched a new pediatric Oral Immunotherapy Clinic, which offers a specia.... Read More

At VUMC Workplace Violence Policies Apply to All Employees, Patients

May 08, 2023 at 08:47 pm by Staff

  by Matt Batcheldor Aggressive behavior toward health care providers is on the rise nationally, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center is reminding employees and p.... Read More

Vanderbilt mourns loss of former Gastroenterology director Burk

May 08, 2023 at 06:16 pm by Staff

  by Bill Snyder   Raymond Burk Jr., MD, former director of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt.... Read More

Wallace named as VUMC’s New Chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

May 08, 2023 at 06:14 pm by Staff

  by John Howser   David Wallace, MD, MPH, the Marilyn K. Glick Professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology for Indiana University School of Medicine,.... Read More

VUMC to coordinate national effort to reduce ARDS, pneumonia, sepsis

May 08, 2023 at 06:12 pm by Staff

by Bill Snyder Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a six-year, $31.6 million federal grant to lead a national effort to better understand acute respiratory dist.... Read More