CDC health care worker COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness study underway

VUMC’s department of Health Policy, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is working with health care workers to determine the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine in the health care workplace. Emails with a link to a survey will be sent to those who are tested for COVID-19 (the email will be from Dr. William Schaffner). The department thanks those who have...

Grant boosts vaccine effectiveness research

by Nancy Humphrey Investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have received a $ 10.7 million research award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue the IVY Research Network, originally created in 2019 to look at how well flu vaccines work at preventing severe flu illness, and expanded in 2021 to enroll patients hospitalized with COVID-19. It’s the third renewal...

State launches 18 committees to explore new Tennessee school funding model, some question effectiveness

Skeptics already are questioning whether the department can effectively incorporate suggestions into a financial plan.       GANNETT Syndication Service

State launches 18 committees to explore new Tennessee school funding model, some question effectiveness

Skeptics already are questioning whether the department can effectively incorporate suggestions into a financial plan.        GANNETT Syndication Service

State launches 18 committees to explore new Tennessee school funding model, some question effectiveness

Skeptics already are questioning whether the department can effectively incorporate suggestions into a financial plan.        GANNETT Syndication Service

State launches 18 committees to explore new Tennessee school funding model, some question effectiveness

Skeptics already are questioning whether the department can effectively incorporate suggestions into a financial plan.        GANNETT Syndication Service

State launches 18 committees to explore new Tennessee school funding model, some question effectiveness

Skeptics already are questioning whether the department can effectively incorporate suggestions into a financial plan.        GANNETT Syndication Service

State launches 18 committees to explore new Tennessee school funding model, some question effectiveness

Skeptics already are questioning whether the department can effectively incorporate suggestions into a financial plan.        GANNETT Syndication Service

State launches 18 committees to explore new Tennessee school funding model, some question effectiveness

Skeptics already are questioning whether the department can effectively incorporate suggestions into a financial plan.        GANNETT Syndication Service

Combination antibody therapies should retain effectiveness against emerging COVID-19 variants: study

Five monoclonal antibody “cocktails,” including one developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), are protective in animal studies against several variant strains of COVID-19, according to a report this week in the journal Nature. The findings suggest that many of the combination antibody therapies currently being tested in humans should retain their effectiveness against emerging...