Vanderbilt University News

President Obama and his senate allies will need every political tool at their disposal to corral the votes needed to pass their health care reform plan.

A professor and a lawyer strongly on opposing sides of the death penalty agreed on one thing in their debate at Vanderbilt University: No matter the punishment, crime victims' families don't get closure.

A seasonal flu vaccine for seniors is being tested in Nashville. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is offering free shots to those 65 and older as part of a clinical trial to study the efficiency of the seasonal flu vaccine.

Vanderbilt University was one of dozens of private colleges that nudged into the $50,000-a-year price bracket this year, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Jet trails that spread out across the skies have more implications than just marring a nice view.

We are constantly inundated with new information, and to manage it effectively it's sometimes necessary to forget old, irrelevant memories.

Everyone's talking about H1N1 these days, but it's important to remember that the regular seasonal flu is a threat, too.

Chipotle Mexican Grill will open its first Nashville restaurant at 2825 West End Ave.

For the $300 million spent on merit pay for teachers over the last three years, Texas was hoping for a big boost in student achievement.

A judge's decision to reduce a killer's sentence because he has genetic mutations linked to violence raises a thorny question can your genes ever absolve you of responsibility for a particular act? In 2007, Abdelmalek Bayout admitted to stabbing and killing a man and received a sentenced of 9 years and 2 months.

A new treatment for swine flu may already be on pharmacy shelves - cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor.

Mountain beauty brings hazards, too Living in a place blessed with as much natural beauty as Western North Carolina means regularly coping with the dangers that natural world poses.

A monthly six-day course of frovatriptan reduces the frequency and intensity of menstrual migraines, according to two independent phase III trials.

Johnsbury, Vermont, tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that environmental factors play a major role in the formation of new species.

A research team at Vanderbilt University has developed an innovative optical system to simultaneously image electrical activity and metabolic properties in the same region of a heart, to study the complex mechanisms that lead to sudden cardiac arrest.

Two student journalists at James Madison University face judicial charges at the school after entering a dorm to get comments for a news story.

In a small basement room on Vanderbilt University's campus, Dr. William Schaffner gets prepped to teach his students.

Darlene Johnston tends to worry about her feisty, 73-year-old mother. After Sunday morning, she has more reason for concern.

The suspect arrested in connection with an arson that killed a Tennessee family had his first day in court.

With the election of a black U.S. president and a society becoming more multicultural, race relations have improved in recent years.