Daily Archives: January 27, 2020

Nashville area viewers will see Vanderbilt Health featured during Sunday’s Super Bowl. The Super Bowl, which is America’s most watched television broadcast, will include two advertisements from the Medical Center’s Defining Personalized Care campaign. Continue reading →

For nearly a month, 15-year-old Trinity Scott sported a black canvas messenger bag, the type any teenager might wear. But far from any ordinary bag, what was inside was literally keeping her alive: a ventricular assistance device (VAD), an implantable … Continue reading →

Given the uncertainty of the outbreak and impact on PPE supplies, VUMC asks clinicians to be proactive in their daily PPE use to minimize any excessive use or waste. Continue reading →

The benefits of fetal surgery to repair spina bifida, a procedure pioneered at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 1997, continue through school age, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study reports in the journal “Pediatrics.” Continue reading →

Using part of an antibody isolated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that “broadly neutralizes” the human dengue virus, biologists at the University of California San Diego and colleagues have disarmed the mosquito that transmits the disabling an… Continue reading →