Issue
Money and Finances
Apr. 29, 2011—Retirement plans, Credit Union plans, tuition discounts
writing contest
Mar. 28, 2011—
Medicine! Mayhem! Murder! redux
Mar. 28, 2011—A. Scott Pearson, M.D., associate professor of Surgery, has published a new medical thriller, a follow-up to Pearson’s well-received 2009 book “Rupture,” which has just been released in paperback. “Public Anatomy” has the same central character as “Rupture,” Memphis surgeon Eli Branch, and, as Branch is drawn further into the labyrinthine plot, a knowledge of...
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.
Reaching for the stars
Mar. 28, 2011—I am a total astronomy geek. In elementary school, I cleaned out the school library’s supply of astronomy books, many of which, I later learned, were at least 10 years old and spectacularly inaccurate. For example, even by 1966, it was well known that there was no chance that Venus had a planetwide boiling sea,...
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.
Special Issue Slide
Mar. 4, 2011—
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.