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 E-Mail IMAGE: Lead author Julia Phillippi, PhD, CNM, assistant professor and academic director of the Nurse-Midwifery program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing view more  Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center After a 2020 Vanderbilt University Medical Center study showed women have a difficult time accessing treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), investigators analyzed comments received from the study's participants to further shed light on barriers to care, which included everything from long on-hold times to difficult interactions with clinic receptionists durin...

 E-Mail Statewide stay-at-home orders put in place as Tennessee fought to control the spread of coronavirus last March were associated with a 14% lower rate of preterm birth, according to a research letter published today in JAMA Pediatrics. Preterm infants have higher morbidity and mortality risks than babies born at term. Senior author Stephen Patrick, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy and a neonatologist at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and his colleagues had observed in March that there appeared to be fewer infants than usual in the ...

Statewide stay-at-home orders put in place as Tennessee fought to control the spread of coronavirus last March were associated with a 14% lower rate of preterm birth, according to a research letter published today in JAMA Pediatrics.

More mothers struggling with opioid addiction, fewer getting treatment America on pace to have record number of overdoses this year and last updated 2020-12-23 16:34:30-05 America has an opioid problem and more mothers are struggling with sobriety. “At the height of my addiction, I could take anywhere from 20 or 30 Percocets a day if I had them,” said Amanda Martin, who’s opioid addiction started shortly after the death of a child. “My third born son died shortly after he was born and that just made a huge impact on me,” Martin said. During her fourth and fifth pregna...

Others are concerned about the side effects of the vaccine or have objections on religious grounds to receiving vaccinations. Still others, especially those in rural areas of the state, aren't sure when they will even have access to the vaccines — a concern shared by rural hospitals and health care providers. TEA plans to survey its own members in January about their feelings toward the vaccine. This month the organization surveyed members about their current working conditions ahead of the start of the legislative session in January. Many students also aren't likely to get vaccinated  Whe...