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National Academy of Medicine addresses urgent threats of COVID-19 and climate change at annual meeting
Oct. 30, 2020—The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are twin calamities that cannot be resolved without global cooperation, consistent communication and leadership and urgent innovation by the scientific community. That was the message of last week’s virtual annual meeting of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) titled “Confronting Urgent Threats to Human Health and Society: COVID-19 and Climate Change.”...
Hospital plaza set to undergo major restoration
Jul. 18, 2014—[Originally published by VUMC Reporter] After little change since its construction in 1977, one of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s most familiar landmarks, the plaza behind Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH), is undergoing restoration. The VUH plaza is a major outdoor thoroughfare for tens of thousands of pedestrians each day, with its surface and existing architecture,...