The roster of participating schools is impressive: Brandeis University, Duke University, Emory University, Northwestern University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Wake Forest University and Washington University in St.
Another suggestion comes from two American academics, Allen Sanderson of the University of Chicago and John Siegfried of Vanderbilt University.
Wood, dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and chair of the Food and Drug Administration panel that looked into Vioxx's risks in February.
Other trial sites along with the University of Maryland Medical Center are Baylor College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Emory University, Saint Louis University, Seattle Group Health Cooperative, the University of Iowa, and Vanderbilt University.
"We were able to estimate that a minimum of 30 percent and possibly even more than 50 percent of GBS patients had had preceding campylobacter infection, " said Dr. Ban Mishu Allos of Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine.
He has held the top job at West Virginia University, the University of Colorado, Brown University and Vanderbilt University.
And I think he's actually got a good resource base of donors that are willing and probably will give money for both the transition effort, but also the inaugural campaign as well, " said David Lewis, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University and author of "The Politics of Presidential Appointments.
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Von Lipinski's story is typical of what Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, knows of these sorts of infections.
It can prevent the flu, and it can be beneficial even if you do get sick, said Dr. Bill Schaffner, chairman of the preventive medicine department at Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine.
For instance, some highly regarded law schools, including those at Northwestern University, Georgetown University, Cornell University, UCLA, Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota, are currently still allowing promising students to send in applications for the school year starting in August or September, even though the official deadlines passed months ago.
Alistair Wood of Vanderbilt University, who chaired the panel, joked that perhaps there should be new ads in which a famous figure skater with arthritis drops on the ice from a heart attack.
"If you think about what these ads are trying to do, they are trying to convince that 7% in the 20% of states that matter, " said John Geer, chairman of Vanderbilt University's political science department.
In looking at election data from 1992, 2000 and 2002, political scientists Marc Hetherington of Vanderbilt University and Jonathan Weiler of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that places where spanking is more likely to be used to discipline children tend to lean Republican.
In early civilizations, women were also considered the property of men, said Laura Carpenter, assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
Take, for example, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University who developed a solar cell using the photosynthetic protein found in spinach.
Noel Tulipan, director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Simply put, it's a clearer policy, and some protection is better than none at all, according to Dr. William Schaffner, the chair of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt University's director of the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), believes the new data adds to what's already been known about ASD in other parts of the world -- that autism is not rare.
That strain accounts for roughly 10 percent of infections so far this year, an infectious disease researcher from Vanderbilt University told CBS News, with overall Influenza B infections roughly doubling those of last season.
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That strain has accounted for roughly 10 percent of infections so far this year, an infectious disease researcher from Vanderbilt University told CBS News, with overall Influenza B infections roughly doubling those of last season.
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In collaboration with Brian Bachmann at Vanderbilt University, we screened some of these samples for new antimicrobial compounds.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University looked at the records of thousands of Tennessee Medicaid patients over a period of 14 years.
The bacteria are "remarkably common in the water and in the environment, " according to Dr. Buddy Creech, assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University.
But Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, estimates there are fewer than 250 cases every year in the United States.
Dr. Buddy Creech, an assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, said that Aeromonas hydrophila -- which is "remarkably common in the water and in the environment" -- is one of many bacteria that can cause a flesh-eating process.
Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, estimates that fewer than 250 such cases occur each year in the United States, though estimates are imprecise since doctors do not have to report the cases to health authorities.
Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, estimated that fewer than 250 such cases occur each year in the United States, though estimates are imprecise because doctors do not have to report the cases to health authorities.
Though there is uncertainty about just how common such infections are since no clearinghouse compiles statistics on their incidence, Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, estimates there are fewer than 250 cases every year in the United States.
At Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, one-quarter of the Nashville, Tenn.
The vaccine usually works best in young, healthy people, according to Dr. Bill Schaffner, chairman of the preventative medicine department at Vanderbilt University.
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