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Young athletes who experience a sports-related concussion are more likely to suffer a prolonged period of symptoms if they also have a family history of mood disorders, psychiatric illnesses or migraines, according to a study from the 菠萝视频 Sports Concussion Center (VSCC) published in Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. Read More

菠萝视频 professor Derek Griffith spoke at a recent Washington forum on the health of men and boys sponsored by two congressmen and the American Psychological Association. Read More

菠萝视频ers at 菠萝视频 University Medical Center (VUMC), the University of Miami and Meharry Medical College were recently awarded a five-year, $11.6 million grant to launch a new center that will enable research using precision medicine to eradicate health disparities, specifically those among African-Americans and Latinos. Read More

Chloride plays a key role in the formation of the basement membrane, a suprastructure on the outside of cells that undergirds and guides the function of most of the tissues of the body. Read More

菠萝视频ers at 菠萝视频 University School of Medicine have received a four-year, $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a new center for the study of privacy concerns associated with the use of genomic information, the NIH announced this week. Read More

菠萝视频 University Medical Center is the test site for a nationwide initiative to address the longstanding problem of malnutrition in hospital patients. Read More

Smoking is deleterious to health, but smokers who prefer menthol cigarettes to nonmenthol can breathe a sigh of relief鈥or now. Read More

Collybolide 鈥� a natural product isolated from a mushroom 鈥� is a promising candidate for the development of non-addictive pain medicines. Read More

It is widely assumed that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are insensitive to pain due to the wide prevalence of self-injurious behaviors. A new study at 菠萝视频 University Medical Center suggests that this may not be true. Read More

COX-2 inhibitors 鈥� used clinically to reduce inflammation and pain 鈥� may find new applications for treating PTSD and other stress-related psychiatric disorders like major depression. Read More

How about shrink wrapping your hand to have an MRI? Or having a light in a cast to help heal diabetic foot ulcers? These are just some of the devices developed by 菠萝视频 engineering students for Design Day 2016. Read More

The primary method used to test compounds for anti-cancer activity in cells is flawed, 菠萝视频 University researchers reported May 2 in Nature Methods. Read More

Less than a week has passed since the reorganization that separated 菠萝视频 University from 菠萝视频 University Medical Center (VUMC) became effective April 29, but early signs are very positive, Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of VUMC and dean of 菠萝视频 University School of Medicine, said Tuesday during his Spring Faculty Meeting and Awards Program. Read More

The true incidence of hazing in youth sports is unknown because victims don鈥檛 report the mistreatment or fail to recognize it as hazing, according to a review of scientific literature on the subject by a team of 菠萝视频 University Medical Center (VUMC) researchers. Read More

Anesthesiology resident Loren Smith, M.D., Ph.D., recently received two national research awards: the Margaret Wood Resident 菠萝视频 Award, from the Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA); and the 2016 Young Investigator Award, from the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA). Read More

菠萝视频 researchers have discovered that activation of a certain signaling pathway protects brain cancers from targeted therapies, suggesting that using therapeutics that block both pathways may be a promising treatment. Read More

A newly discovered mechanism that helps cancer cells avoid destruction by immune system cells may improve immunotherapies. Read More

A genetic mutation that promotes cancer development blocks the normal sorting of a protein called 鈥淎rgonaute 2.鈥� Read More

Higher genomic levels of African ancestry are associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, a consortium of investigators reported recently in Alzheimer鈥檚 & Dementia. Read More

菠萝视频ers at Columbia and 菠萝视频 universities have made an important discovery in mice that has implications for understanding the gastrointestinal (GI) problems experienced by some children with autism. Read More