TT HealthWatch

By Dr. Richard Lange and Elizabeth TraceyScience Medicine Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement Life Sciences

TT HealthWatch episodes

July 15, 2022 TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 15, 2022
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.
12 min
July 08, 2022 TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 8, 2022
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.
12 min
July 01, 2022 TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 1, 2022
This week's topics include computer-based therapy for PTSD, maternal mortality during COVID-19, life stress and immune response, and smoking cessation basis.
13 min
June 24, 2022 TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 24, 2022
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.
13 min
June 17, 2022 TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 17, 2022
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.
14 min
June 10, 2022 TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 10, 2022
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.
12 min
June 03, 2022 TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 3, 2022
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.
12 min
May 27, 2022 TT HealthWatch - Friday, May 27, 2022
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.
13 min
May 20, 2022 TT HealthWatch - Friday, May 20, 2022
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.
12 min
May 13, 2022 TT HealthWatch - Friday, May 13, 2022
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, and should we screen for COPD.
12 min

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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.