Vanderbilt University News

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.

A new study in East Asian women has identified three genetic changes linked to an increased risk of breast cancer .

According to new findings, interventions to increase parental well-being can significantly reduce the stress, depression and anxiety felt by mothers of children with autism.

The reasons that a person comes for psychotherapy may not be the reasons that he or she stays in therapy.

A probiotic that prevents obesity could be on the horizon. 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.

Classrooms across the country are finding new ways to use technology to improve learning experiences for students.

Strangers help student stay in college after mom's death NASHVILLE - Her mother committed suicide.

Peer-led interventions that target parental well-being can significantly reduce stress , depression and anxiety in mothers of children with disabilities, according to new findings released in the journal Pediatrics .

Americans committed to better living for bosses can take heart at the fact that college and university administrators - unlike their faculty and students - are thriving.

Discovery Education's Discovery Educator Network hosted 150 educators from across the U.S., Canada and United Kingdom for an immersive, week-long professional development experience.

Physicians should be aware of the prevalence and serious consequences associated with use of counterfeit medical devices, according to a letter to the editor published online July 20 in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine .

Chris Grava, 22, shot an online video of the 30 children at the center in Khayelitsha that his brother Nick, 25, has been running for the past year and a half.

A new study in East Asian women has identified three genetic changes linked to an increased risk of breast cancer.

Madeline Farr, who plans to study writing in college, has been awarded a scholarship to attend Kenyon College in Gambier.

The American Society of Hematology will honor Michael DeBaun, MD, MPH, of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Robert P. Hebbel, MD, of the University of Minnesota Medical School with the 2014 Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize for their significant research advances in the area of sickle cell disease.

A Vanderbilt University-led research team has identified protein "signatures" of genetic mutations that drive colorectal cancer, the nation's second leading cause of cancer deaths after lung cancer.