VUMC employees poised to Celebrate March 7 and 8
A chance to win seats at a Predators hockey game, updates on recent successes, a free meal, live music, patient stories and a Vanderbilt Health logo T-shirt for all attendees are just part of what's in store at the employee appreciation event -- Celebrate the Difference WE Make Every Day! -- being held on March 7 and 8. View...
Salk Institute's Ronald Evans set for next Discovery Lecture tomorrow
Evans, director of the Gene Expression Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, will discuss "Resetting Metabolism and Treating Diabetes by Targeting Factors from Fat and the Gut." View...
Kevin Hartley was an organ donor, and his mother had one wish: to hear her son's heartbeat one more time. She got the chance.
As her 21-year-old son Kevin lay dying in a hospital bed, Wendy Hartley asked her daughter, Amber, to find a stethoscope. She wanted to listen to his heartbeat once more before he passed. Nearly two years after his death, she heard his heartbeat again -- this time in the chest of Rhonda Lucas, a Johnson City, Tennessee, nurse who received his heart. View...
Don't be a time change zombie
Banking up on sleep ahead of the March 10 time change when clocks spring forward an hour is a smart way to avoid the frantic feelings and lingering fatigue associated with daylight saving time -- if you do it the right way. View...
Defining Personalized Care stories: Jordyn Spann
At age 32, Jordyn Spann -- a wife and mother of four -- learned she had a brain tumor. Her mission to find the best surgeons led her to Vanderbilt and a 16-hour surgery that removed her acoustic neuroma and returned her to family life. View...
Eligible physicians can now vote in U.S. News "Best Hospitals" survey
Annual voting is now open for U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals" rankings for adult and children's hospitals. Online voting for eligible physicians to complete their survey takes place on Doximity. The surveys will remain open throughout the month of March. View...
"Momentum": Therapy advancement for an aggressive lung cancer
Patients with stage IV small cell lung cancer lived longer when given the immunotherapy atezolizumab with chemotherapy, setting the stage for what could become the first new treatment approved in decades for this particularly aggressive form of lung cancer. View...
VUMC in the news
A roundup of a few recent stories from the press about Vanderbilt University Medical Center. View...