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TT HealthWatch

Dr. Richard Lange and Elizabeth Tracey

tay 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

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12:43

Screen Time, Cannabis Risks, and PET Scanning

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/06/20

Program notes:0:35 Screen time trajectories in adolescents1:33 31% had increasing addictive use trajectories2:31 Females more involved in social media3:06 Cannabis and CV risk4:06 Smoking or using other products5:06 Mechanisms include oxidative stress6:06 Haven't regulated6:28 Tau PET imaging in Alzheimer's7:28 90% of tau positivity concurs with AB8:30 Will blood test obviate?9:30 Imaging to detect spread9:43 CT perfusion for death by neurological criteria10:43 Validation threshold 98%11:43 Maybe

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12:39

Family Affluence, Gut Bugs, Heat Illness, and Low...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/06/13

This week's topics include family affluence and telomeres in children, gut bugs and respiratory illness in children, heat illness and homelessness, and low potassium diets and hypertension and diabetes.Program notes:1:05 Heat illness and homelessness2:05 No access to water3:05 More likely in southern states3:20 Telomere length, family affluence and cortisol4:20 High affluence had longer telomeres5:20 Cortisol may need to be measured over longer time interval6:20 Dietary patterns, sodium reduction,

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13:19

Breast And Colorectal Cancer, And CAR-T Therapy

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/06/06

This week's topics includetreating hot flashes in breast cancer survivors, a blood test for detecting colorectal cancer, exercise to improve survival after colorectal cancer treatment and CAR-T therapy for solid tumors.Program notes:0:40 CAR-Ts for solid tumors1:40 Advanced gastric or gastroesophageal cancer2:40 Cytokine release syndrome3:22 Exercise after treatment for colorectal cancer4:23 Disease free survival superior5:23 Currently not much exercise6:23 Potential mechanisms7:10 Treating hot

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12:49

Skin Cancers, Second Stroke Risks, Weight Loss

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/05/30

This week's topics include the worldwide burden of skin cancers, risk of a second stroke when a person is taking anticoagulants, patients supportingeach other for weight loss maintenance, and imaging for dense breasts.Program notes:0:45 Dense breast tissue imaging1:40 MRI and contrast enhanced mammography superior2:40 Giving IV contrast with mammography2:53 Burden of skin cancer in older adults worldwide3:52 Greater disease burden in men4:53 More likely to have exam and biopsy5:48 Atrial

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12:33

Mental Health, Fatty Liver, and Resistant Hypertension

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/05/23

This week's topics include treating resistant hypertension, gabapentanoids and the risk of self harm, risk for depression after diagnosis of a medical condition, and fatty liver and pregnancy.Program notes:0:35 Depression after medical condition diagnosis1:36 Any of a number of medical conditions2:37 A much lower risk in comparison group3:37 Major depressive disorder could be number one cause of YLL4:01 Fatty liver and pregnancy outcomes5:01 Matched to those with obesity or T2D6:01 Screening general

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12:42

Syphilis, Medications, and PTSD

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/05/16

This week's topics include USPSTF on screening for syphilis in pregnancy, when to take blood pressure medicines, comparing weight loss drugs, and a narrative intervention for PTSD after an ICU stay.Program notes:0:40 NEJM publication of comparison of obesity medications1:40 Tirzepatide versus semaglutide for 72 weeks2:41 Also had reduction in blood pressure3:26 Rise in congenital syphilis and screening4:26 Disparities among various groups5:26 Highest incidence in the last 30 years6:26 In 2023

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12:29

Multi-Component Vaccine, Urinary Incontinence,...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/05/09

Program notes:0:40 Covid and flu vaccine1:40 More immunogenic response2:40 Female urinary incontinence treatment3:40 Mid urethral sling or botox4:40 Doesn't require surgery5:40 Combined therapy group6:10 Large language models and discharge summaries7:10 100 hospital encounters8:10 Maybe provides a draft9:00 AI and diagnosing diabetic kidney disease10:01 Large number of retinal images to train11:01 Can actually see blood vessels12:29 End

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13:07

Cancer patients, lung cancer, Pepfar cessation, and...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/05/02

Program notes:0:47 Gun injuries and deer hunting season1:47 Other associated injuries2:47 Coincidence of hunting?3:48 Restrict hunting guns to that use4:10 Can we avoid surgeryin some with cancer?5:10 Dostarlimab treatment6:10 Can help avoid surgery in few who have this mutation7:10 Look at specific pathways7:30 Lung cancer treatment8:32 71% responded9:12 Impact of Pepfar funding freeze10:12 Looked at waiver scenarios11:12 Decreased deaths and infection12:13 Takes time to resume13:06 End

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Stroke, clot formation, breastfeeding, and prostate...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/04/25

Program notes:0:40 Polygenic risk score for prostate cancer1:40 90th percentile or higher2:40 Genetic risk for cancer3:41 Avoid false positives4:00 Cervical artery dissection and subsequent stroke risk5:00 High in older people, Black and Hispanic people6:00 Nonspecific symptoms may predict7:00 Preventing clotting in patients with cancer8:00 Standard dose followed by half dose8:44 USPSTF on supporting breastfeeding9:45 Support systems not that good10:55 What is the best strategy to support?12:14

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12:03

Strep, hearing loss, MS, and TAVR outcomes

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/04/18

Program notes:0:33 TAVR outcomes improved1:33 Dapagliflozin2:33 Looked at comorbidities3:00 Tolebrutinib for relapsing MS4:00 Annualized relapserate5:00 Works in the CNS6:00 First endpointwasn't proven6:20 Invasive group A strep7:20 Become more resistant to antibiotics8:01 Not a single type of group A strep8:25 Hearing loss and heart failure9:25 Psychological distress mediiates10:25 With hearing aids, you would think it would go down11:20 Everything looks associated12:03 End

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12:27:00

Diet, dementia, cardiovascular disease and risk factors

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/04/11

This week's topics include agingand diet, blood based biomarkers for dementia, ten and thirty year risk for cardiovascular disease, and global effect of cardiovascular risk factors.Program notes:1:00 Five factors and cardiovascular disease2:00 Additional life years free of CVD3:00 Irrespective of where you live3:27 Optimal dietary patterns for healthy aging4:28 Higher intake of fruits, vegetables5:28 Little bit better one or another6:28 Can actually change this6:40 Ten and thirty year CVD risk7:40

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12:10:00

A-fib, bleeding, penicillin, hypertension

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/04/04

This week's topics include a better way to treat A-fib, managing bleeding in cardiac surgery, penicillin for strep infections, and treating pulmonary hypertension.Program notes:0:55 Ablation for afib1:51 Pulsed field ablation PFA2:55 Training physicians3:23 Prothrombin complex versus frozen plasma4:24 Noninferiority outcome5:24 Documented bleeding issue6:25 New treatment for pulmonary hypertension7:25 Improve outcomes in advanced disease8:25 Well tolerated8:40 Penicillin lowest dose to prevent

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12:54:00

Biopsies, long term risk after TIA

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/03/28

This week's topics include cell signatures in PCOS, a new technique for prostate biopsies, improving the safety of carotid endarterectomy, and long term risk after TIA.0:41 Long term risk of stroke after TIA1:39 About one in five over the next ten years2:40 Need to continue antiplatelet agents3:33 New technique for prostate biopsy4:36 Biopsy naive men5:35 Microultrasonographyused6:35 Limited availability of MRI7:33 Improving safety of carotid endarterectomy8:33 Sonolysis used9:34 Safe and routinely

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