TT HealthWatch

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

TT HealthWatch episodes

July 30, 2021 TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 30, 2021
This week's topics include treatment of spinal muscular atrophy in infants, treatment of CMV infection in pregnancy and infant outcomes, complications of Type 2 diabetes in youth, and optimal timespan for aromatase inhibitor treatment in postmenopausal women with breast cancer.
13 min
July 23, 2021 TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 23, 2021
This week's topics include COVID vaccine efficacy in a VA population, a new medicine to treat psychosis in those with dementia, opioid prescribing differences between Blacks and Whites, and medical debt.
13 min
July 16, 2021 TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 16, 2021
This week's topics include COVID-19 and autoantibodies, MRI and prostate cancer biopsy, use of an antibody in graft-versus-host disease, and treatment of opioid use disorder among Medicaid beneficiaries.
13 min
July 09, 2021 TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 9, 2021
This week's topics include an inactivated Sars-CoV2 vaccine in Chile, cytosine for smoking cessation, generic drug costs at Costco, and muscle relaxants for low back pain.
13 min
July 02, 2021 TT HealthWatch - Friday, July 2, 2021
This week's topics include a look at diabetes nationally, a new treatment for celiac disease, a way forward with the most severe form of amyloidosis, and a blood test for multiple cancers.
13 min
June 25, 2021 TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 25, 2021
This week's topics include mental health during COVID for caregivers, who's intended to get vaccinated among younger people, resistance to KRAS, and triglycerides and heart disease.
12 min
June 18, 2021 TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 18, 2021
This week's topics include SARS-CoV-2 in adults and children, cooling in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, sudden cardiac death in HIV-positive persons, and sports-related concussion.
13 min
June 11, 2021 TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 11, 2021
This week's topics include in utero management of a congenital lung problem, infecting mosquitoes to control Dengue, flu vaccines in pregnant women, and hospital at home for those with chronic illness.
13 min
June 04, 2021 TT HealthWatch - Friday, June 4, 2021
This week's topics include vaccinating adolescents for COVID-19, atrial fibrillation monitoring and stroke, the Indian COVID-19 variant in the U.K., and vaccinations and public health measures to control COVID-19 infection.
13 min
May 28, 2021 TT HealthWatch - Friday, May 28, 2021
This week's topics include kangaroo care for preterm infants, infections in prosthetic joints, guidelines for managing weight in pregnancy, and a treatment for “bubble boy” disease.
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.