Daily Archives: February 25, 2019
VUMC offers employees discounted CSA memberships
CSA stands for community supported agriculture and works like a subscription program for vegetables and fruits, and participants receive a share of the harvest from local farms. Continue reading
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VUMC’s Jeff Hileman helps take CPR training to the masses
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Interstate 440 reconstruction project to snarl traffic beginning March 1
Work on the Interstate-440 reconstruction project will bring about lane closures and travel disruption through its scheduled completion in August 2020, with the major disruption beginning this weekend. Continue reading
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Register for March 7 and 8 “Celebrate the Difference WE Make Every Day!” event
Attendees are registered for a chance to win Predators tickets, and everybody gets a T-shirt. Continue reading
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A personal approach to cochlear implant programming
Because the pitches that come through cochlear implants are not as finely resolved as the ones received through a normal-hearing ear, children are using an impoverished signal and a less-than-full pitch range as their sole auditory source to develop sp… Continue reading
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Medical Center Staff Advisory Council accepting grant applications through March 31
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Research shows frogs can adapt to traffic noise
Frogs don’t like living near noisy highways any better than people do, but research from Vanderbilt suggests that frogs, like hardened city-dwellers, can learn to adapt to the constant din of rumbling trucks, rolling tires and honking horns. And, just … Continue reading
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Browning leaves behind legacy of buildings and better lives for the people who use them
It’s a crisp February morning and Ken Browning, just a few days short of his retirement, let his gaze travel down the Medical Center plaza. From where he stood, just outside Medical Center North, a three-block long canyon of buildings stretches south a… Continue reading
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Correction
Nahon P, Bourcier V, Layese R, et al. Eradication of hepatitis C virus infection in patients with cirrhosis reduces risk of liver and non-liver complications. Gastroenterology 2017;152:142–156. Continue reading
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