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Nicotine patches, gums and nasal sprays prescribed to stop people smoking may also help them cut down on alcohol, suggests a new study.

Parton’s new gift will support a variety of ongoing research at the at Vanderbilt University Medical Venter, including understanding how viruses and bacteria cause disease.

Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville

RaDonda Vaught was spared prison sentence and handed three years probation by Tennessee judge

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, James Perkinson’s voice was raspy. In February, he’d just been taken off ECMO, the last-ditch life support treatment in which a machine outside the body does the work of the heart and lungs.

An expert at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center agreed with those suggesting the quickly spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus and its mild symptoms could have a positive impact. Like many others, James Crowe, professor at the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, believes that “with these characteristics, the new variant could be…