TT HealthWatch

155 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 22 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings

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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Episodes

TT HealthWatch - Friday, April 26, 2024

April 26, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include autism rates among males and females, consequences of atrial fibrillation, antipsychotics among those with dementia, and antibiotic use utilizing AI.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, April 19, 2024

April 19, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include a new drug for early Parkinson's, Paxloivd and Covid, pragmatic model for chronic kidney disease, and lymph node removal and breast cancer.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, April 12, 2024

April 12, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include decolonizing patients and infections in the hospital, delirium and dementia, brain size over the last few decades, and are biosimilars cheaper for patients.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, April 5, 2024

April 05, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include deep learning to help predict cardiovascular events molnupiravir in, immunocompromised people with COVID-19, sleep and exercise, and oral steroids in preschool wheeze.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, March 29, 2024

March 29, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include differences in donor heart acceptance by race and gender, medication for self-managed abortion, aspirin and MASLD, and diagnosing Parkinson's with a skin biopsy.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, March 22, 2024

March 22, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include advances in treating early breast cancer, stroke after COVID-19 vaccination, anti-seizure meds during pregnancy and ASD, and oxygen targets in critically ill people.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include new screening methods for colorectal cancer, a drug coated balloon for blocked stents in the heart, delta 8 THC use, and mortality and treated ADHD.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, March 8, 2024

March 08, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include microplastics in arteries, deaths due to alcohol use, obesity and its consequences, and steps for the sedentary.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, March 1, 2024

March 01, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include Medicaid expansion and healthcare workers, brain impact of long Covid, a drug for severe food allergies, and cardiac rehabilitation.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, February 23, 2024

February 23, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include a longitudinal study of Alzheimer’s markers, CAR-T cells for autoimmunity, methods of illegal opioid overdose, and safety and efficacy of telemedicine abortion.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, February 16, 2024

February 16, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include allocating donor hearts, an online program for long Covid, electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation, and reversing anticoagulation in hemorrhagic strokes.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, February 9, 2024

February 09, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include a new treatment for NASH, human milk for preterm infants, psoriasis treatment, and managing gout with uric acid levels.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, February 2, 2024

February 02, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include a possible cause for long Covid, screening for language disorders and delays in kids, costs of healthcare when someone with cancer gets switched to a high deductible plan, and diabetes remission health impact.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, January 26, 2024

January 26, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include closing the women's health gap, how seniors use the health care system, cancer after weight loss, and PFAS guidelines for clinicians.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, January 19, 2024

January 19, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include a look at congenital syphilis, a way of treating some people with congestive heart failure, palliative care in two different populations, and breast cancer outcomes over fifty years.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, January 12, 2024

January 12, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include a proteomic approach to cancer screening, vegetarian diet and COVID-19 risk, performance of dialysis centers, and medical errors in hospitalized patients.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, January 5, 2024

January 05, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include a new medication for atrial fibrillation, a comprehensive approach to prepregnancy through early childhood, opening the blood-brain barrier for an Alzhiemer's antibody treatment, and management of TMD.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, August 26, 2022

August 26, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include physical activity and Covid risk, statin use update, standing desks and reduced sitting time, and how often do modifiable risk factors contribute to cancer?

TT HealthWatch - Friday, August 19, 2022

August 19, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include risk of thrombosis in patients hospitalized with Covid, cutoffs for gestational diabetes, monkeypox clinical guidelines, and remote ischemic conditioning and stroke outcomes.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, August 12, 2022

August 12, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 16 Bytes

This week's topics include long COVID-19 and variants, treatment of asymptomatic kidney stones, a new blood marker for diabetes and cancer, and managing intracranial atherosclerosis.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, August 5, 2022

August 05, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include the best medications for insomnia, calorie labeling of supermarket foods, the global burden of COPD, and restricting driving in people who faint.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 29, 2022

July 29, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include a second booster for Covid, sociodemographics of drug overdose deaths, increasing gestational diabetes, and cardiometabolic impact of Covid infection.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 22, 2022

July 22, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include hangriness, physical activity and poor diet, the state of men's health, and alcohol use and risk.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 15, 2022

July 15, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 16 Bytes

This week's topics include factors that contribute to severe outcomes in immunocompromised people with COVID-19, a new oral medication for severe COVID-19, lack of benefit in knee injections for osteoarthritis, and insight into long COVID-19.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 8, 2022

July 08, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 16 Bytes

This week's topics include outcomes for babies in women infected with Covid during pregnancy, new cardiovascular health guidelines, targeting difference pathways in Alzheimer's, and monkeypox update.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 1, 2022

July 01, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include computer-based therapy for PTSD, maternal mortality during COVID-19, life stress and immune response, and smoking cessation basis.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 24, 2022

June 24, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include Medicaid expansion and suicide, long Covid and Delta versus Omicron, green areas and mortality, and multivitamins, supplements, CVD and cancer.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 17, 2022

June 17, 2022 14:00 - 13 minutes - 19 Bytes

This week's topics include breast screening imaging comparison, varenicline for smoking cessation in African Americans, voting and health outcomes across the U.S., and testosterone supplements and CVD.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 10, 2022

June 10, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include a new treatment for rectal cancer, using circulating DNA to guide colorectal cancer treatment, type 1 diabetes and obesity, and obesity and cancer.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 3, 2022

June 03, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 16 Bytes

This week's topics include atrial fibrillation after pneumonia, a new treatment for pancreas cancer, harms experienced by hospitalized Medicare patients, and risk of long COVID-19 after COVID-19 infection in fully vaccinated people.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, May 27, 2022

May 27, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

How to inactivate pathogens in a room, flu vaccine helps in COVID-19, unintended consequences of a cancer treatment, and COVID-19 vaccines and long COVID-19.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, May 20, 2022

May 20, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 16 Bytes

This week's topics include proning non-ventilated COVID-19 patients, increased numbers of people screened for prediabetes and diabetes, TAVI versus surgery, and a new agent for pulmonary fibrosis.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, May 13, 2022

May 13, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 16 Bytes

This week's topics include use of ECMO in people with COVID-19, variations in treatment of heart attack in high-income countries, variations is excess mortality during COVID-19, should we screen for COPD.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, May 6, 2022

May 06, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 16 Bytes

This week's topics include assessing long COVID-19, self-monitoring and blood pressure in pregnancy, exercise to slow kidney function decline, and failure of nonoperative management of appendicitis in children.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, April 29, 2022

April 29, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include long COVID, mix and match COVID vaccines, WHO living guideline on outpatient treatment of COVID, and aspirin for primary prevention of heart disease.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, April 22, 2022

April 22, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes - 16 Bytes

This week's topics include healthy lifestyle and Alzheimer's, racial groups and Alzheimer's risk, time-restricted eating and weight loss, and treating moderate to severe asthma in Black and Latinx adults.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, April 15, 2022

April 15, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include hip injections for osteoarthritis, treatment of Achilles tendon rupture, neoadjuvant therapy for lung cancer, and overdose deaths among U.S. adolescents.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, April 8, 2022

April 08, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17 Bytes

This week's topics include COVID-19 and wastewater, blood clots and COVID-19, treating mild hypertension in pregnancy, and use of a PCSK9 with statins after heart attack.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, April 1, 2022

April 01, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include GI impact of GLP-1 agonists, coinfection with flu and COVID-19, tomosynthesis and recall, and the best statin for those with diabetes.

TT HealthWatch - Friday, March 25, 2022

March 25, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes - 18 Bytes

This week's topics include neurologic sequelae of vaccination for or infection with COVID-19, lack of benefit for those with COVID on aspirin or other antiplatelets, safety of history-based prescription of medications to terminate pregnancy, and quit attempts by adolescents using combustible and e-cigarettes.