An increasing number of Tennessee parents are reporting their families are food insecure. Up more than 30% in just one year, 41.2% of Tennessee parents reported low or very low food security compared to 31.3% last year.

If newer brand-name antiobesity medications were covered by Medicare, they could cost the program between $13.6 to $26.8 billion even with only 10% of people with obesity using them, according to a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers in the Department of Health Policy.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic the rate of Tennessee uninsured children more than doubled as the state experienced the highest spike in un

Patients with serious pneumococcal infections, including pneumonia and sepsis, are at a substantially increased risk of heart attack after the onset of infection according to a Vanderbilt study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. 

Velma McBride Murry, PhD, Vanderbilt University Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Peabody College, was recently appointed to the National Institutes of Health National Advisory Mental Health Council, an appointment approved by the U.S. Congress.

New analyses of the latest annual Tennessee 

New research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association from Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators found that the household spread of flu during the 2021-2022 season was more than twice as high as it was prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.