Daily Archives: February 12, 2019

IBM Watson Health has announced plans to make a 10-year, $50 million investment in joint research collaborations with Brigham and Women’s Hospital — the teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School — and Vanderbilt University Medical Center to advance… Continue reading →

Certified genetic counselors are among the first faces that patients see once accepted into Vanderbilt’s Undiagnosed Diseases Network where hopefully they will gain a diagnosis. Continue reading →

The Phenotyping and PheWAS Core, a program of the Center for Precision Medicine, offers informatics assistance for studies of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s vast repositories of electronic health record and patient genotype data. Continue reading →

How can you tell the story of a lifetime in 99 words (or fewer)? Here’s how some Vanderbilt University Medical Center lovers did it. Hint: After you read the story once, go back and just read the last line of each couple’s story. Continue reading →

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is hosting a special employee appreciation event — Celebrate the Difference WE Make Every Day! — to applaud recent successes and acknowledge the many contributions of the Medical Center’s employees during three se… Continue reading →

Come help Vanderbilt recognize breast cancer survivors and cheer on the Lady Commodores basketball team as it takes on the LSU Tigers, Sunday, Feb. 17, at 5 p.m. All tickets are only $1. Continue reading →

Using sophisticated gene sequencing and computing techniques, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the San Diego Supercomputer Center have achieved a first-of-its-kind glimpse into how the body’s immune system gears up to fight off i… Continue reading →

Management of patients with cirrhosis includes endoscopic screening and surveillance to detect esophageal varices (EV) and prevent bleeding. However, the Baveno VI guidelines recommend avoiding endoscopies for patients with liver stiffness measurements… Continue reading →