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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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12:11

Staph Treatment, Type 2 Diabetes, and Cancer Care

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/08/22

Program Notes:0:44 Spuds are what we call potatoes1:47 Followed for over 5million person years2:45 No mechanism for why french fries are problematic3:25 DASH4D diet for glycemic control4:25 4 diets compared5:25 Extends benefits outside hypertension6:20 A new antibiotic for staphinfections7:20 IV therapy until cultures are negative8:20 Cost of new therapy, cost effectiveness8:40 Geographic variation in subspeciality cancer care9:40 Highest income managed by specialists10:40 Guidelines expanded11:36

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11:42

Health care after dementia diagnosis, alteplase after...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/08/15

Program notes:0:40 Alteplase after stroke1:40 Expand time window2:40 Imaging crucial in use3:20 Use of health care and mortality in those with dementia4:20 Women used much less healthcare5:20 Focus on prevention in women5:50 IVF outcomes and weight loss6:50 Did not appear to increase success with IVF7:45 Ultraprocessed foods versus minimally processed foods8:45 Randomized to one diet or the other for 8 weeks9:45 Minimally processed foods improved risk factors10:45 Short period of study11:42 End

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13:24

Covid Variants, Antithrombotics, Contraception, and...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/08/08

Program notes:0:40 Screening young adults for CRC1:40 Four different screening options2:41 Awareness issue3:40 "Yuck" factor associated4:34 Persistent Covid infections and variants5:35 Who ends up with variants?6:35 Did not render more infectious7:35 Humans as mixing vessels7:50 How do men and women respond to antithrombotics8:50 15% reduction in MI9:58 Long term contraceptives free and uptake10:58 48% of pregnancies in North America unintended11:58 Increase in any type of contraception12:38 Cost is

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12:08

Flu in kids, obesity risk score, cognition lifestyle...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/08/01

Program notes:0:44 Flu consequences for young children1:44 Fulminant course2:44 16 kids of total unvaccinated3:10 HPV, T-cell receptor signaling and SCC4:10 Unresectable disease5:10 Thought virus facilitated6:10 Target in recurrent or metastatic disease6:26 Nonpharmacologicintervention in older adults to improve cognition7:26 More intensive program a little better8:26 Eat better, exercise more and use your mind9:15 Polygenic risk score for obesity10:15 Explained variance in cohorts11:15 At birth

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11:58

Characterizing Cancers, Human Phenotype project, and...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/07/25

Program notes:0:40 Human Phenotype project1:43 Metabolomics2:42 25 year follow up3:43 Two control groups4:00 CBT via telehealth or online5:00 2000 people with chronic pain6:00 Completion rate for videos lower6:50 RNA analysis in cancer molecular diagnostics7:50 4.8% failure rate8:50 CNS or blood cancers primarily9:25 Middle age exposure to air pollution and later cognition10:25 Poorer processing speed earlier in life11:58 End

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12:43

Reanimating Hearts, Suicide Among Older Adults,...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/07/18

Program notes:0:44 Reanimating hearts for transplant1:44 Allow heart to sit for two to four minutes2:34 Outcomes in DCIS without surgery3:34 Free of breast cancer six months after diagnosis4:34 Numbers who went on to develop invasive disease low5:34 May change how we approach DCIS6:09 Suicidality around the world in older adults7:09 Guns, pesticides, hanging8:10 Increase primary care diagnosis of OUD9:10 Three clinics in four U.S. states10:10 Six million adults with OUD11:10 Many physicians unaware

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13:17

Kid’s Health, Life Expectancy and Heart Risk Calculators

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/07/11

Program notes:0:40 AHA risk calculator in various ethnicities1:40 Works well in all of them2:40 Women and ethnicities3:00 Hepatitis C screening in EDs4:01 Many ethnicities represented5:01 Identified as having the virus6:01 Once they tested only 24% were referred7:01 It was free testing7:40 Failing US children8:41 78% more likely to die in the US9:41 Some of these are preventable10:24 Life expectancy after the pandemic11:24 Remains almost a year deficit12:24 Deaths from overdose declining13:17

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12:49

Aphasia After Stroke, Chemotherapy Drugs, and New...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/07/04

Program notes:0:40 A novel way to help aphasia after a stroke1:40 C7 nerve ligation2:42 Somatosensory function versus speech processing3:36 Substandard anticancer medications4:40 Tested many using HPLC5:40 Alarming that one in six is impacted6:40 Paying out of pocket7:38 New type of medicine for treatment resistant hypertension8:38 Need to follow electrolytes9:00 ED boarding for elderly10:00 Length of stay increased11:00 Elderly more likely to suffer complications12:00 CMS program for all inclusive

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12:57

Oral GLP-1 agonist, Satiety Pathways, and Stem Cell...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/06/27

Program notes:0:40 Stem cells for type 1 diabetes1:40 None had hypoglycemia afterwards2:40 Autologous stem cells?3:20 Oral GLP-1 agonist4:20 Primary endpoint HbA1c reduction5:20 Weight loss modest6:20 Injectable GLP-1 plus an amylin analogue7:20 Both those with diabetes and those without8:20 No increased safety events8:40 Mental health hospitalizations in adolescents9:40 KID database10:40 Females accounting for increase11:40 67% of hospitalizations12:57 End

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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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00:12:14

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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