TT HealthWatch
TT HealthWatch
Dr. Richard Lange and Elizabeth Tracey
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.
Technology to improve stroke outcomes, social media, and clinical management
This week's topics include technology to improve stroke outcomes, adult use of social media and health decisions, impact of social media ban on Australian youth, and an LLM to augment clinical management in a low resource setting.
Jul 3
TKR patellar resurfacing, CAR-Ts, tranexamic acid, and patient messaging
This week's topics include patellar resurfacing with TKR, long-term outcome for CAR-Ts, tranexamic acid in routine surgery, and patient messaging trends.
Jun 26
12 min
Brain development in kids, multimorbidity, childhood obesity, and prehabilitation
This week's topics include SES and brain development in kids, lifestyle changes and multimobidity, food labeling and childhood obesity, and prehabilitation in elders.
Jun 19
CVD risk factors, cognitive decline, insulin price, and factors in IBD
This week's topics include visceral fat and CVD risk factors, delirium and cognitive decline and hospitalization, caps on insulin price, and factors involved with IBD.
Jun 12
Resistance training, low back pain, cfDNA cancer screening delays, and GLP1s and knee replacement
This week's topics include the benefits of resistance training, staving off chronic low back pain, delays in cancer diagnosis with cfDNA screening, and GLP1s and knee replacement.
Jun 5
12 min
Dual anticoagulation, miscarriage, at home rehab, and weight loss
This week's topics include duration of dual anticoagulation following bypass grafting or stents, how has management of miscarriage changed, at home rehab after an ICU stay, and weight loss for atrial fibrillation.
May 29
PCOS name change, whole blood, antibiotics, and blood markers
This week's topics include a name change for PCOS, whole blood for trauma, antibiotics for wheezing in kids, and blood markers to direct lung cancer screening.
May 22
12 min
Digoxin, thrombectomy, maternal occupation during pregnancy, and exercise
This week's topics include digoxin for heart failure, thrombectomy for strokes in medium sized vessels, maternal occupation during pregnancy and ASD in offspring, and exercise and 24 hr ambulatory blood pressure.
May 15
12 min
Nonprofit hospital work, GLP-1 use, weight loss drugs, and transcranial stimulation
This week's topics include outcomes after consultant work in nonprofit hospitals, use of GLP-1s in AUD, a model for predicting benefit from weight loss medicines, and transcranial stimulation for ASD.
May 8
12 min
UTIs, cancer in young people, knee osteoarthritis, and vaccine uptake
This week's topics include treating uncomplicated UTIs in women, factors related to the rise in some cancers in younger people, a new agent for osteoarthritis of the knee, and increasing vaccine uptake.
May 1
11 min
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