Vanderbilt University Medical Center held a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday to mark the opening of its latest addition: a $169 million Critical Care To
Dr. Louise Hanson, director of student health services, explains where H1N1 confirmation and influenza-like illness numbers come from and why they may not give an accurate picture of what is occurring in a community.
The Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one of eight locations in the country participating in early trials of the H1N1 influenza vaccine.
Dr. William Schaffner, Professor and Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University, talks to the Hustler about the H1N1 virus and vaccine.
On Saturday evening, Vanderbilt will join tens of millions of people by turning off its lights for Earth Hour.
Earth Hour, which was created in 2007 by the World Wildlife Fund in Australia, is now a global event in which participants worldwide turn off non-essential lights for one hour.
On March 9, President Barack Obama signed into law an executive order that removed barriers to responsible scientific stem cell research, effectively reversing President George W. Bush's 2001 presidential statement and 2007 executive order limiting federal funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells.