Monthly Archives: April 2018

Vanderbilt Health and Williamson Medical Center are opening a fifth walk-in clinic in Williamson County, providing Nolensville residents and those in the surrounding area with care closer to home. Opening Monday, April 30, the new facility joins existi… Continue reading →

The survey is your opportunity to express how you feel about your managers, VUMC’s senior leadership, organization pay, benefits, training and career development. Continue reading →

For Kathy Keck, lead administrative assistant in the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, going the extra mile is part of the job. It is that mindset that garnered Keck the 2018 VUMC Administrative Professionals Award. Continue reading →

Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI, has played a major role in the development of the national All of Us Research Program, an ambitious effort led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to accelerate the prevention and treatment of illness through precisio… Continue reading →

The prevalence of U.S. children with autism spectrum disorder is now 1 in 59, according to new estimates released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Continue reading →

There is an urgent need for safe treatments for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) that relieve treatment-refractory symptoms and their societal and economic burden. Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment that has not been broadly adopt… Continue reading →

Serrated polyps (SPs) and conventional adenomas are precursor lesions for colorectal cancer (CRC) but believed to arise via distinct pathways. We characterized risk factor profiles for SPs and conventional adenomas in a post-hoc analysis of data from 3… Continue reading →

Single nucleotide polymorphisms could affect risk for hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We performed a germline copy number variation (CNV)-based genome-wide association study (GWAS) in populations of Chinese ancestry to s… Continue reading →