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Nursing

Nurse Practitioners Add Value to Event Emergency Teams

Integrating nurse practitioners into mass-gathering medical teams offers a real-time solution to a sudden surge in patients.
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Business of Medicine

Technology Center Untangles Alphabet Soup of Regulations

Vanderbilt’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization walks researchers along winding path to commerce.
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Pediatric Neurology & Neurosurgery

Continuum of Care for Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders

Vanderbilt opens dedicated center for organizing and improving complex multi-disciplinary care for CSF.
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Changing Medicine

Researchers Navigate ‘Valley of Death’ in Product Creation

The Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering helps researchers gain experience and hone their skills as entrepreneurs.
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Pediatrics

Preserving Fertility Options After Treatment is Advocates’ Goal

Call-to-action urges preservation of reproduction as part of pediatric cancer care protocols.

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Trends in Medicine

Guidelines Help Non-specialists Treat Obstetric Hypertension

Two toolkits help clinicians identify hypertensive disorders and prevent emergencies during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

Testing Normoxia vs. Hyperoxia for Cardiac Surgery

Randomized single-site study answers questions about the potential superiority of either approach.

Teams Map Early Progress of Colorectal Cancer

Vanderbilt is creating a roadmap of colorectal cancer progression as part of an NCI-funded Cancer Moonshot initiative.

Surgeons Top Reports of Unprofessional Behavior

Surgeons and nonsurgeon proceduralists experienced more reports of unprofessional behavior, according to a new restrospective study.

Conversational Format Encourages End-of-Life Planning

A new style of advanced-care planning packet helped increase the number of patients with advance directives in the EMR.

Peer Feedback Prompts Professionalism Among Nurses

A well-established Vanderbilt University Medical Center program has proven effective at reinforcing professionalism and patient safety in a new population: nurses.

Mental Health Affects Appearance Perception Following Palsy

People with mental illness who experience non-flaccid facial paralysis exhibit a more negative response.

Pediatricians Urge Preparedness for Mass Casualties

What pediatricians should know to be more effective in assisting children through crisis.

Physician-Patient Messaging Ripe for AI Upgrade

Pilot study suggests large language model programs may help improve the efficiency of patient-provider messaging.

HDL Switches From Friend to Foe in RA

In rheumatoid arthritis, altered microRNA cargo on HDL blunts protection against cardiovascular disease.