Todd Rice, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine was quoted by People magazine in a piece about the death of NASCAR driver Kyle Busch from pneumonia and sepsis. KFF Health News and others have picked up the story as well.
Newsy Today covered the new clinical care guidelines for improving postpartum cardiovascular care from Kathryn Lindley, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.
James Crowe, MD,Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Antibody Therapeutics, was quoted in a Reuters story about Ebola treatment and a Nashville Business Journal story about efforts to develop treatments for hantavirus.
William Schaffner, MD, Professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by several news outlets about public health issues, including: WKRN News 2, WTVF News Channel 5, Oprah Daily and Verywell Health (hantavirus); Cruise Critic (why cruise ships are good environments for viral outbreaks); Prevention (COVID prevention drug ensitrelvir); Everyday Health and MDLinx (shingles vaccine); Healthline (FDA blocking publication of vaccine safety studies); and The Washington Post (headline: “6 rashes and infections you can get from the beach”).
Huffington Post reporter Korin Miller interviewed Stephanie McAbee, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, for a story about constipation.
Healio and KOIN-TV in Portland, Oregon, interviewed Ashley Shoemaker, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology for a story about hypothalamic obesity.
Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics & Surgery, and medical director of Obesity Medicine, was quoted in a Medscape story about restarting GLP-1 treatment after stopping.
Tucson Weekly reporter Effie Jacobs wrote an editorialabout the Nature Mental Health study led by Heather Ward, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of Neuromodulation Research at Vanderbilt Health, that found using cannabis and tobacco together increases the risk of developing psychotic disorders like schizophrenia among those considered high risk.
Thiratest Leesutipornchai, MD, a Nephrology fellow, was quoted in a Healio story about cost savings achieved by a strategy to reduce peritoneal dialysis solution bag use, while still maintaining clinical safety for patients.
In critically ill patients with sepsis, plasma hemoglobin may be a new indicator of disease severity – and a potential target for treatment with acetaminophen.
This discovery may lead to new ways to block metabolic changes contributing to excessive and ineffective inflammation, reset the immune system, and bring sepsis under control.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center had a leading role in a large national study designed to compare two early interventions in the treatment of patients with sepsis, the body’s severe response to an uncontrolled infection.
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NASCAR driver’s death brings attention to sepsis; postpartum cardiovascular care; Ebola treatment; plus other stories with Vanderbilt Health sources – Vanderbilt Health News
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