Business/Tech

Celebrating the Annual Dr. Matthew Walker, Sr., Legacy Breakfast

May 06, 2021 at 09:54 am by Staff

Event Honored Community Luminaries, Young Scholars After being interrupted by the pandemic last spring, the annual Dr. Matthew Walker, Sr., Legacy Breakfast returned in 2021 i.... Read More

Healthcare Construction & Design Trends

May 05, 2021 at 12:13 pm by Staff

Issues, Considerations Moving Post-COVID Slowly but surely, the nation is beginning to emerge from strict COVID protocols and return to some semblance of normalcy. While it's.... Read More

AMA announces update to COVID-19 vaccine CPT codes

May 05, 2021 at 09:27 am by Staff

The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced that the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set has been updated by the CPT Editorial Panel to include vaccine a.... Read More

Study Revises Understanding of Cancer Metabolism

May 01, 2021 at 01:56 pm by Staff

Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit, upending models of cancer metabolis.... Read More

#BeTheGift, Tennessee! Challenges Volunteer State to Register 100,000 More Organ and Tissue Donors in 2021

Apr 26, 2021 at 06:16 pm by Staff

Tennessee Donor Services (TDS) today launched #BeTheGift, Tennessee!, a statewide challenge to register 100,000 more Tennesseans as organ and tissue donors in 2021. Supporters.... Read More

Forty-Three Percent of Melanoma Patients Have Chronic Complications from Immunotherapies

Apr 26, 2021 at 11:15 am by Staff

Chronic side effects among melanoma survivors after treatment with anti-PD-1 immunotherapies are more common than previously recognized, according to a study published March 2.... Read More

Stimulation Device Helps Patients with Bladder Disorders ReprogramStimulation Device Helps Patients with Bladder Disorders Reprogram

Apr 26, 2021 at 10:53 am by Staff

A neurostimulator surgically implanted above the buttocks to reprogram how the bladder senses the filling of urine is helping patients with debilitating bladder and bowel diso.... Read More

Vanderbilt, Zambia Researchers Identify Predictive Factors of Delirium in Sub-Saharan Africa

Apr 23, 2021 at 10:26 am by Staff

Severity of illness, history of stroke, and being divorced or widowed were independently predictive of delirium in hospitalized patients in Zambia, according to a study publis.... Read More

AMA statement on police brutality in Chicago

Apr 22, 2021 at 12:00 am by Staff

Statement attributable to: Susan R. Bailey, M.D., American Medical Association President "In video footage released yesterday, Chicago and the world again see a child's life c.... Read More

Method Proposed to Correct Misinterpretations of Long-Term Survival Rates for Immunotherapies

Apr 16, 2021 at 12:45 pm by Staff

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed cancer care to the point where the popular Cox proportional-hazards model provides misleading estimates of the treatment effect,.... Read More