Vanderbilt University Medical Center
A drug used to treat colorectal cancer also can reverse a rare stomach disorder and should be considered first-line therapy for the disease, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center report this week.
A multi-national research team has discovered that two genetic factors converge to increase the risk of sudden cardiac death.
Researchers are developing a Wearable Artificial Kidney for dialysis patients, reports an upcoming paper in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN).
When Jason Martin gives a talk about his research, he begins with the dramatic story of Mariana Bridi da Costa: The young Brazilian supermodel died from severe sepsis in January after amputation of both her hands and feet failed to stop its spread.
A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators has cracked one of clinical medicine's enduring mysteries ? what happened to the tuberculosis vaccine.
A chemical component of licorice may offer a new approach to preventing colorectal cancer without the adverse side effects of other preventive therapies, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers report.
Marijuana use may increase the risk of ectopic (tubal) pregnancies, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center reported this week. The researchers studied CB1, a ''cannabinoid'' receptor that binds the main active chemical for marijuana, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). In pregnant mice that lacked the gene for the receptor, or in which the receptor was blocked, the embryo failed to go through the oviduct -- the tube leading from the ovaries to the uterus. The same thing happened in normal mice when the receptor was over-stimulated.
Physicians treating deadly liver tumors are finding success by injecting patients with radioactive microspheres that get trapped in the web of small blood vessels feeding a tumor and zap the cancerous cells. "The liver doesn't tolerate external beam radiation in sufficient doses to affect tumor without damaging the remaining good liver," said one physician researcher working on the treatment. "These spheres emit radiation for a short distance, less than a centimeter. If you can cluster radiation right around the tumor, the radiation exposure at the tumor site compared to normal liver is favorable."
