Monthly Archives: May 2018

Jordan Berlin, MD, has been named associate director of Clinical Investigation Strategy and Shared Resources at Vanderbilt–ngram Cancer Center (VICC). Continue reading →

Summer means backyard barbecues and spending time with family and friends at the pool, beach or on a boat. Unfortunately, it can also mean an uptick in drowning and near-drowning incidents. Continue reading →

Children who underwent cardiac surgery were less likely to develop acute kidney injury if they had been treated with acetaminophen in the first 48 hours after their procedures, according to a Vanderbilt study just published in JAMA Pediatrics. Continue reading →

Just because you stopped smoking years ago doesn’t mean you’re out of the woods when it comes to developing lung cancer. That’s the “bad” news. The good news is your risk of lung cancer drops substantially within five years of quitting. Continue reading →

Bruce Green’s Los Angeles-to-Boston trip to honor his late father will take 48 days. Continue reading →

Endoscopic hemostasis is effective in treatment of bleeding peptic ulcers. However, re-bleeding is difficult to treat and associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. We performed a prospective randomized trial to determine whether over the sco… Continue reading →

Dominant strictures occur in approximately 50% of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Short-term stents have been reported to produce longer resolution of dominant strictures than single-balloon dilatation. We performed a prospective st… Continue reading →