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William Schaffner, MD, Professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by several news outlets about public health issues, including: Women’s Health and Healthline(The stories are about cyclosporiasis, an infection spread through contaminated food or water, and one has the extremely memorable headline: “’Explosive Diarrhea Parasite’ Spreading Across 17 States.”);The Cut (shingles and stress in millennial women); MSN News (a slide show, “16 Things Doctors Wish You Knew about Vaccines.”)
Ivanhoe Broadcast News repurposed quotes from an interview with Patricia Andrews, MD, Director of Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trials, for a story about how to build a better brain at any age. The clip was used by WGEM News (Quincy, Illinois) and others
Everyday Healthposted a story headlined “4 ways to cope with loneliness if you have depression,” that quotes James Jackson, MA, PsyD, Research Professor of Medicine. He discusses how to overcome the vicious cycle of isolating oneself due to depression, which leads to feelings of loneliness which can make depression worse
Jeremy Jacobs, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, was quoted by The New York Times in a story about how increasing numbers of parents are denying permission for a routine Vitamin K injection for their newborn infants, and the resulting increase in rare but preventable serious and even fatal bleeding in these babies
WTVF News Channel 5 broadcast a story about Sumner County Judge Ron Blanton receiving a kidney transplant at Vanderbilt Health, and how grateful he is to the donor of the kidney
Forbes posted a first-person piece by Bill Frist, MD, highlighting the Vanderbilt Transplant Center’s status as the No. 1 transplant center in the country
A Healiostory about the limits of rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing quoted Ritu Banerjee, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
Lab Rootsreporter Annie Lennon covered the Nature Mental Health study led by Heather Ward, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of Neuromodulation Research at Vanderbilt Health, that found using cannabis and tobacco together increases the risk of developing psychotic disorders like schizophrenia among those considered high risk.
