Pathfinder Therapeutics gains ally

Pathfinder Therapeutics, the image-guided surgery technology firm that was spawned by VU School of Engineering and Medicine research, has agreed to integrate its offerings with those of NeuroLogica, release here.

Health-Satellite imagery

Satellite imagery of changes in Earth's vegetation, rainfall, etc., can help scientists predict increases in correlated diseases. Space Times News has it.

Research boosts healthcare ops

Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management faculty research into operations management may help manage and reshape trauma healthcare enterprises. VU release is here.

DiPietro president of UT system

The statewide University of Tennessee system is now led by President Joe DiPietro (left), a University of Illinois-trainined academic and scientist, a veterinarian, who was previously chancellor's of UT's Institue of Agriculture, from which he helped launch biofuels and other initiatives. His bio's here. And, we see he's addressing Nashville's Rotary downtown, Jan. 10. Keith Carver has been named DiPietro's exec asst, the KNS reports.

Docs flocking to hospitals viewed warily by some

Physicians are seeking a haven from the rising demands on private practice, and hospitals see opportunities to capture or recapture revenue. The insurance industry sees industry consolidation that could cause problems. The TFP reports.

TriageBot: VU sees more robots in ER

Vanderbilt scientists and engineers are developing TriageBot systems to help nurses deal with patients who aren't as desperately ill as others, to increase productivity and improve care. VU news promotes it.

Radiotherapy software can kill

The New York Times reports that a new avenue for errors -- misprogrammed software -- had lead to horrible pain and some deaths of patients.

Humanity Ascending | Vanderbilt Magazine

Vanderbilt Magazine offers vignette's of graduates who have followed their passions to serve humankind in the U.S. and in developing nations. These inspiring samples are here.

Robotic surgery in ETN

Hospitals in Tennessee are among the greatest advocates, it seems, of adopting the 10-year-old da Vinci robotic surgery technology. The KNS reports.

VanMiddlesworth, 91, continues UTHSC research

UT Health Science Center Prof. Lester VanMiddlesworth, 91, has been studying indocrine processes 63 years at the school, aided the past 20 years by his volunteer lab assistant, his wife. The CA reports.

Cancer-detection breakthrough

As the 70-year-old CEO of EDP Biotech Corp. in Knoxville, Tom Boyd (at left, in shirt from another venture) must be an interesting guy, and his firm probably deserves the sudden buzz they're getting, as a result of their announcement Friday, which read in part, saying the company has introduced a "revolutionary new technology for a simple blood test to detect early-stage colon cancer. Following the success of its pre-clinical trials for the ColoMarker™ assay, EDP has filed a patent on the biomarker, CA11-19, and all aspects of its use. Via an inexpensive blood test, ColoMarker™ will detect colon cancer in its earliest, most curable stages."