Features
Money and Finances
Apr. 29, 2011—Retirement plans, Credit Union plans, tuition discounts
A Legacy of Lifesaving
Mar. 28, 2011—Cheryl Major, R.N., may have saved more babies than anyone in the state of Tennessee. Some of them she has saved in person as a neonatal nurse. Many more she has saved by providing lifesaving skills to others who care for fragile newborns.
Unique three-stage spine surgery saves woman’s life
Mar. 28, 2011—Judy Kerns was facing a one-of-a-kind problem. Here’s how she put it: her head had fallen off her neck. You would expect a medical professional to put this in more scientific terms, but Matthew McGirt, M.D., uses pretty much the same words as his patient: “Her head had literally fallen off her spine, and it was a miracle she wasn’t paralyzed,” said the assistant professor of Neurosurgery.
From renal nurse to renal patient
Mar. 28, 2011—For 10 years Janice Dalton worked as a renal transplant/dialysis nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In 2003, at the age of 54, she was diagnosed with renal failure, placed on dialysis and told she would need a kidney transplant.
What does Vanderbilt Eat?
Mar. 4, 2011—Some good news about Vanderbilt employees: * Most of us have breakfast most days. * We’re pretty good about not snacking too much. * And while a lot of us weigh more than we should, we’re better off than the state and the country. But then, there’s this: when it comes to eating five servings of fruits or vegetables a day, we’re worse than the U.S. average, and we’re worse than the Tennessee average. We’re terrible, in fact, with only 14 percent of us meeting that nutrition recommendation threshold. The United States and Tennessee averages are both around 23 percent.
Your world… and welcome to it
Mar. 4, 2011—Jamie Pope, dietitian, School of Nursing instructor, and New York Times bestselling author, shows how to shape your living environment to make changes you want to make.
Six tips for running the race of good nutrition
Mar. 4, 2011—Marilyn Holmes, manager of Health Plus and a dietitian, gives ideas about how to change eating habits.
20K every day
Mar. 3, 2011—It’s 10 a.m. and Tom Christenbery has already logged 7,381 steps on his pedometer. He isn’t bragging. He has worked hard to shed 90 pounds and keep it off for the past five years. He thinks some of the things that have worked for him, can work for others, too.
I wanted to feel better
Mar. 3, 2011—Holly Walsh is naturally a fitness inspiration to others with her “just do it” motto for exercise. A mention of her name in a room full of colleagues is accompanied by praise of how great she looks, how much weight she lost and kept off over time and admiration of her well-defined, toned arms.
42 pounds, off for 21 years. And counting
Mar. 3, 2011—Believe it or not, Paula McGown’s biggest health accomplishment isn’t that she lost 42 pounds in 1990. It’s that she’s kept it off for 21 years.