Daily Archives: February 13, 2018

The Tennessee Poison Center (TPC) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month, following a year in which it received more than 50,000 emergency calls from residents, healthcare professionals, emergency departments and intensive care units. Continue reading →

To help drive awareness and increase voter participation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has joined more than 70 other Middle Tennessee businesses, nonprofits and professional organizations in support of Project Register, an effort to rais… Continue reading →

“VUMC Voice”: The mystery good Samaritan nurse whose act of kindness prompted a Nashville man to phone VUMC to tell how she helped him after a bicycle wreck, has been identified. She is Carmen Magers, RN, who works in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PAC… Continue reading →

“VUMC Voice”: The proposal was at Kroger. A wedding ring fell over a cliff. William “Bill” Moore, MD, clinical professor of Pediatrics, and Mary “Genie” Courtney, PhD, research professor in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, are still in love. Continue reading →

We read with great interest the article by Snyder et al1 comparing 3 different methods of duodenoscope disinfection or sterilization: standard high-level disinfection, double high-level disinfection (dHLD), and standard high-level disinfection followe… Continue reading →

We took note with great interest of the paper by Klatte et al entitled “Association Between Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and Risk of Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease.”1 In this broad retrospective study, these authors demonstrated that initiatio… Continue reading →

There is strong evidence supporting the association between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and fructose consumption.1 Fructose particularly drives hepatic de novo lipogenesis (DNL), which promotes lipotoxicity and steatohepatitis. Schwarz et al2 hav… Continue reading →