Vanderbilt University News

A 25-year-old man is being hailed a hero by family members after he saved his four-year-old son and others from being struck by a truck on Sunday night.

Newswise - Vanderbilt University Medical Center saw perhaps its busiest weekend ever this Memorial Day holiday, with more than triple the volume of patients treated during a typical weekend.

Kids can pass a lot of things around to each other -- germs, colds, a bad case of the giggles.

The Marianas Baptist Academy's Class of 2012 ended the school year with a twist-a double valedictorian with Jessica Im Lee and Manatsu E. Omori.

A new study shows that oxidative stress may put obese patients at an increased risk of developing kidney damage after heart surgery.

Combustible dust has killed or burned hundreds of American workers, but politics and bureaucracy have stalled efforts to clean it up.

MONDAY May 28, 2012 -- Could your young child be putting on excess pounds because her friends sit around? A small study suggests it's possible: Kids seemed to become more active in after-school programs if they hung out with active kids, and the reverse was true, too.

Now a new study suggests the activity level of a child's peer group may affect that's child's likelihood of becoming overweight.

Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles of students graduating from Kalamazoo-area high schools this spring.

The civil rights movement illuminated the hypocrisy of the liberal promise.A It made overt, and recorded on television for the world to see, an old daily fact of American life:A that a black person who protested his condition, or moved one step out of line, would be arrested, or beaten, or inundated with water hoses, or killed, and the national ... (more)

A new study by researchers at Vanderbilt University looked at nearly one hundred children who participated in an after-school program.

Chaminade College Preparatory School graduated the 101st class in its history Sunday, and the first class to be lauded in the Skip Viragh Center for the Arts.

May 28, 2012 -- Kids who like to be active can influence others to do the same, or at least that's what new research finds.

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center announced Thursday it has entered into an agreement with Buffalo Minimally Invasive Weight Loss Surgical Solutions to form Niagara Metabolic & Bariatric Services, a joint practice to provide weight-loss services including bariatric surgery at the hospital's downtown campus.

This is a microscopic image of bacteria responsible for the flesh-eating disease that is usually caused by a strep germ.

Famous Five Dining Inc., franchise owners of five Famous Dave's restaurants in Tennessee, won a Tennessee SBA Small Business Person of the Year Team Award.

The Board of Directors of Jewish Family & Children's Service announces David Weiss is the new Board President.

From the Intramural Research Program , National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Department of Radiology , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Department of Electrical Engineering , Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Millions of women across the country are suffering in silence with a dirty little secret.

Leaders from a variety of faith backgrounds, politicians and educators met Thursday in Washington, D.C., for the National Religious Freedom Conference: Rising Threats to Religious Freedom, an event that organizers say is part of a battle against the trampling of religious liberties in the public sphere.