Daily Archives: May 19, 2020

At the time Tennessee’s first case of COVID-19 was reported on March 5, direct-to-patient telehealth visits averaged just 10 a day at all of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s outpatient clinics. Less than a month later, outpatient telehealth appoi… Continue reading →

VUMC employees are encouraged to shoot a short video on their smartphones or personal computers to send front-line workers at VUMC shout-outs of encouragement, inspiration and thanks during this challenging time. Continue reading →

On April 20 Vanderbilt Health kicked off a new donation drive: 10,000 cloth face masks. Volunteer sewers stepped up and helped the Medical Center meet that goal, and have pledged to make thousands more. Continue reading →

A snapshot of some of the numbers that help tell the story of COVID-19 at Vanderbilt. Continue reading →

Today’s question: What is VUMC doing to keep patients, visitors and employees safe as they return to work and to the clinics? Continue reading →

As Nashville cautiously begins to emerge from its two-month-long COVID-19 Safer at Home response, so too are the labs and facilities at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Continue reading →

Patients view VUMC — and specifically their own doctor– as the most important source of information and reassurance about safety, according to the survey of Advise Vanderbilt members. Continue reading →

Calcineurin is a ubiquitously expressed central Ca2+-responsive signaling molecule that mediates acute pancreatitis, but little is known about its effects. We compared the effects of calcineurin expression by hematopoietic cells vs pancreas in mouse mo… Continue reading →

There are insufficient population-level data on effects of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Continue reading →