Vanderbilt University News

After a cold and frosty start, we will slowly warm into the upper 40s after lunch on Wednesday.

Wall Street Journal editor James Taranto is blaming "the war on men" supposedly waged by "Barack Obama's America" for the school suspension of a six-year-old Colorado boy for sexual harassment.

William E. "Bill" Young, former Solicitor General of Tennessee, has joined the Administrative Office of the Courts as the Administrative Director.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Alberta in Canada have identified a biomarker for a cellular switch that accurately predicts which prostate cancer patients are likely to have their cancer recur or spread.

A poll conducted by Vanderbilt University shows more than three in five Tennesseans support an expansion of Medicaid, though nearly half also have a negative view of the federal health care law.

President Barack Obama's approval rating in Tennessee has plummeted since the spring, a new poll released Wednesday by Vanderbilt University shows.

The centuries-old "one-drop rule" assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.

Lifelong Nashville resident, Joe Price has been selected by the Hall of Fame Committee of Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C. Terrier Club Board of Directors as one of the 2013 inductees into the school's Hall of Fame.

Anesthesiology professor Mark Newton directs the Vanderbilt International Anesthesia program and also serves as the chief anesthesiologist for Kijabe Hospital in rural Kenya.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center made headlines this year with the elimination of more than 1,000 positions in order to cut $250 million from its operating budget over the next two fiscal years.

Lori Angela Partin, 33, of Nashville died Saturday, Dec. 7 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

Center for Occupational Medicine in Augusta, Ga. has partnered with Nashville-based Applied Health Analytics to provide software and consulting services to enhance its population health services to area employers concerned with improving workforce health, managing disease and reducing high healthcare costs.

Looking for a great gift for that interesting loved ones? Here are some recently published books that might just fit the bill.

The Nashville Health Care Council has revealed the names of the group's new health care Fellows for 2014.

Eric Simonelli of Lynnfield , a junior at Boston College High School, a member of the school's Model United Nations Club, traveled to Nashville, Tenn for a three day conference at Vanderbilt University.

There is some good news for parents of the 1,000 Nashville 4-year-olds whose names are on a waiting list to get into Metro Public Schools' prekindergarten classes.

In spite of the nation's health experts insisting that measles remains preventable and "eminently eliminatable," the United States is experiencing a spike in the disease, with more than 98 percent of the patients unvaccinated.

Clockwise from top left, Jim Holahan, a liver transplant recipient moved from New Jersey to Durham, North Carolina where the competition for organs is less intense.

On her way to one of her first college classes this August, Laney Overton walked past towering coils of barbed wire and stepped through a metal detector.

Bar owner Chris Ferrell has been charged over the shooting of country singer Wayne Mills Wayne Mills was shot dead last month in a Nashville bar after reportedly arguing with the owner over a smoking ban, lighting up a cigarette in the non-smoking area of the downtown bar, called Pit and Barrel.