Vanderbilt University News

Bacteria that produce a therapeutic compound in the gut inhibit weight gain, insulin resistance and other adverse effects of a high-fat diet in mice, Vanderbilt University investigators have discovered.

As a freshman at Vanderbilt University, Hunter, now 26, slept through his 9 AM Italian class every day and went to the 12 PM.

Yet another reason to push back - hard - against anti-vaccine scaremongering : at least seven babies have been admitted to Vanderbilt University's Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital with cases of VKDB - Vitamin K Deficiency bleeding, which can cause brain damage, intestinal hemorrhaging, and death.

While reading the first chapter of Jason Riley's new book, "Please Stop Helping Us," I thought about Will Rogers' Prohibition-era observation that "Oklahomans vote dry as long as they can stagger to the polls."

Laughter is the best medicine, the saying goes. And this laughter yoga class held at Hong Kong Ocean Park is capitalizing on that idea by encouraging attendants to laugh away their stress by doing silly and short exercises.

The current Ebola outbreak is getting the attention of doctors around the country, including those Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

A 23-year-old man was taken into custody for allegedly striking his father with a car following an argument at a Springfield home.

Students from Middle Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt University are designing a solar-powered house that will one day become home to a low-income family.

While reading the first chapter of Jason Riley's new book, "Please Stop Helping Us," I thought about Will Rogers' Prohibition-era observation that "Oklahomans vote dry as long as they can stagger to the polls."

Officials told News 2 that one group of people was approached by a second group.

Inspired by previous studies on the subject, a team of researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville tested a strain of safe bacteria that has been used to treat diarrhea since its discovery 100 years ago.

In May, the Tennessean reported on a truly shocking medical problem. Seven infants, aged between seven and 20 weeks old, had arrived at Vanderbilt University's Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital over the past eight months with a condition called "vitamin K deficiency bleeding," or VKDB.

An increase in spider-bite patients at Vanderbilt University Medical Center here has created some concern - but not about an influx of brown recluse spiders in garages, attics or bathroom cabinets.

A Vanderbilt University professor has come up with a faster and less expensive way to test for explosives residue on surfaces.

Robin Martin, a teacher from Charles F. Patton Middle School in Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, joined 149 esteemed educators from across the U.S., Canada and United Kingdom at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, for a prestigious week-long professional development experience hosted by Discovery Education's Discovery Educator Network .

This week's post includes a study regarding communication with children with autism, good news for California's commercial real estate sector, news of a pop star who recorded a performance in Royce Hall and a look at Real Madrid's annual visit to campus.

Between 1980 and 2008, the prevalence of worldwide obesity more than doubled. In the US alone, almost 35% of adults are obese.

Although Dr. Amanda Wagner was discharged from Vanderbilt University Medical Center on a beautiful spring day, she left the hospital under a cloud of grief.

At age 23 and a 2013 graduate of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Jim Mullen is president of a company working in Memphis to perfect a medical device that would help ensure the safety of blood being transported for transfusions.

All those skinny actresses in commercials gushing at the thought of eating yogurt instead of desserts actually may have a point.