VUMC in the news

The story about the honor walk held for a paramedic who was an organ donor at VUMC was covered by WZTV Fox 17, The Tennessean and WKRN News 2. The Fox 17 story was shared with other stations in the same ownership group, and was also aired in, among other cities, Seattle and Cincinnati.

A piece in The Atlantic, “The coming care crisis as kids with autism grow up,” quotes Julie Lounds Taylor, PhD, associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

“NBC Nightly News” producer Ali Galante interviewed Dane Chetkovich, MD, professor and chair of Neurology, for a story about the FDA warning consumers against infusions of plasma from young donors.

A “Today” show story about this year’s flu vaccine and its successful match to the dominant strain of the virus in circulation quotes William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine. The Weather Channel also published a related piece. Schaffner is also quoted in a story at Time magazine’s site about whether there are health dangers to going to bed with wet hair (there are not).

Reuters reporter Gene Emery, WPLN Nashville Public Radio reporter Blake Farmer, and MedPage Today reporter Elizabeth Hlavinka interviewed Jonathan Casey, MD, a Pulmonary and Critical Care fellow at VUMC, for stories about his New England Journal of Medicine study that found using bag-mask ventilation, squeezing air from a bag into the mouth for 60 seconds to help patients’ breathing, improves outcomes and could potentially save lives during a dangerous two-minute procedure to insert a breathing tube.

A Wall Street Journal column by Eleanore Park, “Raise a cup to the coffee nerds,” mentions Vanderbilt’s Institute for Coffee Studies.