TT HealthWatch

Dec 06 2024 47 ep. 12 mins 5.3k

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Stay up-to-date with the latest research in medicine and science with TT HealthWatch. This 10-minute podcast is hosted by Richard Lange, M.D., M.B.A., president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso and dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, and Elizabeth Tracey, M.S., Baltimore-based medical journalist. Each week, Richard and Elizabeth explore recent peer-reviewed studies and breaking medical news, offering a Texas Tech perspective on the latest developments in health care.

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TT HealthWatch - Friday, December 6, 2024

Dec 06 2024 13 mins

This week's topics include Medicare negotiation on drug price comparison, messaging to improve adherence to CVD medications, maternal cancer detection, and VILPA.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, November 29, 2024

Nov 29 2024 12 mins

This week's topics include reducing the dose of pneumococcal vaccine, benefits of HPV vaccination, treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer, and suitability for treatment with obesity drugs.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, November 22, 2024

Nov 22 2024 12 mins

This week's topics include genetic testing of couples planning pregnancy, use of two medications in people who've had a heart attack, genome-wide association models and risk for cardiovascular disease, and two medicines to reduce lipoprotein(a).

TT HealthWatch - Friday, November 15, 2024

Nov 15 2024 13 mins

This week's topics include the impact of lipoprotein A, frailty as a predictor of dementia, a diabetes medicine in kidney stones and gout, and the impact of multiple chronic medical conditions on hospitalization and death.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, November 8, 2024

Nov 08 2024 12 mins

This week's topics include very early medication abortion, predicting who needs a defibrillator after MI, removal of IVC filters, and early sugar exposure, hypertension and diabetes.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, November 1, 2024

Nov 01 2024 12 mins

This week's topics include fans and core body temperature, strategies to help patients with prescription drug prices, hearing loss and Parkinson's, and oral health, frailty and death.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, October 25, 2024

Oct 25 2024 10 mins

This week's topics include metformin and congenital abnormalities, best meds for opioid use disorder treatment, deprescribing for patients with dementia, and tobacco use among U.S. youth.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, October 18, 2024

Oct 18 2024 11 mins

This week's topics include transplanting kidneys from HIV+ donors; identifying who's at risk for preeclampsia; rainfall and mortality; and a new agent for MASH.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, September 27, 2024

Sep 27 2024 12 mins

This week's topics include a report on cancer in the U.S., MRI and prostate cancer diagnosis, ultraprocessed foods and diabetes risk, and happy moods and happy hearts.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, September 20, 2024

Sep 20 2024 12 mins

This week's topics include youth, opioids and EMS, good news for women with triple-negative breast cancer, a lack of benefit of rapid malaria tests, and risk related to high-dose amphetamines in adults with ADHD.