Daily Archives: January 15, 2020
Healthy adults needed for research study
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Global Health Case Competition to be Feb. 22
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Home with a cold or the flu? It’s OK to snuggle with your pet, infectious disease doctor says.
Dogs and cats can’t catch or spread human disease and “are a comfort, not a hazard” Continue reading
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Parking expense to become pretax payroll deduction
The end of 2019 ushered in changes to existing federal tax law. As a result, the Medical Center can now treat employee parking expenses as a pretax deduction. Continue reading
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Howard Markel to deliver the Leonard Visiting Scholar Lecture, Feb. 6
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VUMC study to use artificial intelligence to explore suicide risk
With the help of a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center will use computational methods to shed light on suicidal ideation and its relationship to attempted suici… Continue reading
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“Discover”: Improving pediatric thyroid cancer detection in needle biopsies
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Study sheds light on link between cannabis, anxiety and stress
A molecule produced by the brain that activates the same receptors as marijuana is protective against stress by reducing anxiety-causing connections between two brain regions, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers report. Continue reading
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Vanderbilt-led team discovers new genetic disease
Studies that started in zebrafish have now pointed to a role for collagen secretion in a wide variety of clinical symptoms — and in a newly identified genetic syndrome. Continue reading
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