Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has once again been recognized as a leader in pediatric health care, earning the title as the No. 1 children’s hospital in Tennessee and sharing the top spot in the Southeast, according to the 2025-2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. Monroe Carell — Middle Tennessee’s only freestanding children’s hospital as well as the region’s only comprehensive, nonprofit pediatric health care provider — has been featured on the Best Children’s Hospitals list for 19 consecutive years, dating back to the rankings’ launch in 2007. This year’s report highlights the hospital’s national…
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As September marks Suicide Prevention Month, care teams at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are raising awareness around an urgent mental health concern affecting Tennessee youth. Amid a backdrop of increasing suicide-related emergency department visits among youth across the state, Monroe Carell experts are informing parents and caregivers about signs of distress to look for in children and adolescents. Recent data underscores the growing need to address the mental health crisis among youth in Tennessee, where a state report released in May revealed that the suicide rate among youth, ages 10-17, increased 47% from 2019 to 2023, with 6.6 youth…
Patients, clinicians and researchers have long dreamed of treating pain with opioids without the risk of addiction. A transatlantic collaboration led by Vanderbilt University and the University of Glasgow may bring that vision closer to reality. Carrie K. Jones Photo: Harrison McClary/Vanderbilt University Great Britain’s Wellcome Trust has recognized Vanderbilt’s Carrie K. Jones and the University of Glasgow’s Andrew Tobin with their prestigious Discovery Award. The pair will study how blocking the M5 muscarinic receptor in the brain counteracts opioids’ addictive properties, which could lead to new treatments for preventing or addressing opioid addiction. Jones is an associate professor of…
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to implement a team-based, primary care approach to controlling high blood pressure or hypertension. Nearly half of adults in the United States have high blood pressure (48.1%), defined as a systolic blood pressure greater than 130 mmHg or a diastolic blood pressure greater than 80 mmHg, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only about one in four of these individuals has their blood pressure under control (22.5%). Alarmingly, about 34 million adults who meet clinical guidelines for hypertension either lack a prescription or…
A pilot program started by Ghina Absi, assistant professor in the practice of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University, is helping to spark high school students’ interest in engineering and STEM as well as show them the impact they can have on their communities. The program is a joint venture with the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt (SSMV), which is a partnership with Vanderbilt and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). Juniors from various Nashville high schools came together once a week for three hours from Aug. 29 to Sept. 19 to learn about civil engineering and the roles of…