Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

Breakthroughs

Precision medicine and the Nashville connection

Precision medicine refers to healthcare tailored to you based on your genetic makeup. It is generating headlines because of a bold new research initiative. What's the Nashville connection? And how can people get involved?

Survival story: Fighting melanoma and leukemia with clinical trials

Kimberly Jessop had stage IV melanoma, then leukemia. She choose fierce positivity — and experimental drugs.

Wearable activity trackers can help achieve fitness goals

Evolving technology allows advancement in activity trackers for recording fitness activity.

Shedding light on the mysteries of lupus

Lupus is a disease of contradictions and mystery. Those with lupus know that getting out and staying active can reduce their symptoms, but too much sun can trigger a painful disease flare.

Keeping cancer drugs from causing heart damage

Tennessee woman tells her story of how an emerging medical discipline helped transform her cancer treatment.

Can integrative medicine help me?

We debunk the myths about complementary therapies and explain how they can supplement traditional treatments.

Searching for answers to complicated ailments

Millions of people live with rare or mysterious illnesses, not knowing the cause. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is now one of seven hospitals around the country in a network devoted to finding diagnoses.

Early heart failure leads to 100-pound weight loss, path to new life

Heart failure at 30 years old emboldened Travis Ghee to focus on better health, family, friendships and helping others.

The importance of living kidney donation

Benefits are great for those who receive organs from living kidney donors.