Monthly Archives: February 2018

Giving all new employees the new VUMC email address is part of several changes that VUMC IT is managing in the coming months. These changes include assigning an @vumc.org email address to Medical Center employees, deploying Microsoft Office 2016, and m… Continue reading →

The agreement provides the ability to form new clinical programs and services to be shared by the two institutions. It also creates a pathway for UMMC and VUMC to formally collaborate on a broad range of health and wellness initiatives and clinical ser… Continue reading →

Despite prognostic grading and staging systems, it is a challenge to predict outcomes for patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs). Sequencing studies of PanNETs have identified alterations in death domain-associated protein (DAXX) and … Continue reading →

Recent advances in minimally invasive endoscopic approaches have pushed the boundaries of well-established resection techniques for therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Endoscopic full thickness resection techniques are a key development in the man… Continue reading →

Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) was developed in Japan, early in this century, to provide a minimally invasive yet curative treatment for the large numbers of patients with early gastric cancer identified by the national screening program. Previ… Continue reading →

There are few data on the effects of methotrexate on reproductive capacity in men with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). We performed a case–control study to determine the effects of methotrexate on sperm quality and genetic integrity. We compared s… Continue reading →

There have been many studies of associations between infant feeding practices and development of celiac disease during childhood, but few studies have focused on overall diets of young children following the weaning period. We aimed to examine the asso… Continue reading →