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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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13:09

AI and diabetes, knee OA exercises, Mediterranean...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/10/31

Program notes:0:45 Steps, more and longer?1:45 8,000 steps or less2:45 Nothing on intensity3:30 Mediterranean diet for IBS4:30 Reduction in IBS symptom severity scale5:30 Easy to accommodatewith high compliance6:30 Exercise for knee osteoarthritis7:30 All types of exercise examined8:30 Initiated exercise to try to address9:00 AI intervention in prediabetes10:00 Based on diabetes prevention program11:00 AI and human led essentially the same12:00 99% of eligible group don't have access13:09 End

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12:51

Nicotine, Heart Surgery, Maternal PFAS exposure and...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/10/24

Program notes:0:40 Nicotine reduction for various subgroups1:40 Native American and Alaskan populations benefit most2:42 Black, rural populations 10 million lives saved3:40 19-39 million life years saved4:00 Food insecurity and blood pressure5:00 Food vouchers most successful6:00 May be more involved and motivated6:35 PFAS and infant brain architecture7:35 Children assessed with MRI8:30 Didn't correct for various factors9:31 Other types of plasticized chemicals9:50 Afib after cardiac surgery10:50

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12:31

Social media and adolescents, gene therapy for ADA...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/10/17

Program notes:0:40 New drug for SLE1:41 Monitored for a year2:43 Only one pathway limited3:00 AI and health care4:00 How to assure compliance?5:00 Policy changes needed6:01 Pessimistic about oversight6:50 Genetic treatment for ADA deficiency7:50 Using a viral vector8:50 A curative treatment9:30 Social media and cognitive performance in adolescents10:30 Low and high increasing social media use11:30 Good enoughevidence12:31 End

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12:40

Obesity medicines, aldosterone and CVD, inhalers, and...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/10/10

Program notes:0:40 Aldosterone as a risk factor for heart disease1:40 Spectrum of renin-aldosterone levels2:40 As many as 25-30% may have3:11 All pharmacologic interventions for obesity tx4:14 All effective compared with placebo5:12 Meta-analysis6:13 Very little data in overweight or massively obese6:35 Where do U.S. antibiotics come from?7:35 India leading country for finished product8:20 Environmental impact of inhalers9:20 Annual emissions increased by 24%10:23 Decreased by 43%11:23 Three forms

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13:08

RSV, Cancer Risk, Pulmonary Hypertension, Bronchiectasis

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/10/03

Program notes:1:21 Bronchiectasistreatment2:22 Twenty sites in UK3:20 Medical imaging and cancer risk in kids4:20 3000 hematologic cancers5:20 Consider other types of imaging6:23 Head CT increases risk by 35%7:24 Treating pulmonary arterial hypertension8:24 Improved mortality in another trial9:25 Antibody prevention of RSV in healthy infants10:25 Healthy preterm and full term infants11:25 Argues for use of this antibody globally12:25 Antibodies against antibody didn't compromise13:08 End

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12:47

Dementia, Type 1 Diabetes, and Private Equity

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/09/26

Program notes:0:40 Private equity takeover of hospitals1:40 Reduced salaries or staffing2:40 Patients likely to cost system3:30 Use of anti thymocyte globulin to slow down T1D in youth4:30 Diagnosed within 9 weeks prior5:30 Serum sickness in 82% of highest dose group6:30 Incidence increasing by 2% per year over 20 years7:00 Aspirin in CRC8:00 1100 patients with mutation9:00 Can this mutation be acquired?9:15 Alcohol and dementia10:15 Confounding factorsrelative to alcohol use11:15 Is there a safe

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13:31

Breast cancer, stalking and CVD, dementia, and...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/09/19

Program notes:0:45 Intimate partner violence and CVD1:45 12% reported stalking2:46 Screening in primary care3:47 Fifty to 200% increased risk4:00 Number of psychiatric disorders and dementia risk5:00 Important to be aware when mental health disorders exist6:03 Anxiety and depression associated6:33 Lipoprotein(a) and widespread vascular disease7:31 High risk of extracoronary vascular disease8:32 Also associated with complications9:32 Unknown why some areas affected10:00 Second cancers after early

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13:16

LSD and Anxiety, Cardiac Rehab, CT and Pregnancy, and...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/09/12

Program notes:0:45 LSD and treatment of generalized anxiety disorders1:45 Change in anxiety score to 12 weeks post administration2:45 100 micrograms appear most efficacious3:45 Require inpatient 12 hours4:44 Cardiac rehab in older patients after MI5:44 Frail individuals can improve outcome6:45 Oftentimes think it won't make a difference7:10 CT and pregnancy outcomes8:10 Linear relationship with increasing CT scans9:10 Closer to conception more likely10:10 Sometimes not really necessary10:21 New tx

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13:16

Post-MI Care, NSTEMI Revascularization, Afib...

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/09/05

Program notes:0:53 Who needs a beta blocker after MI1:53 Those with mild reduction of ejection fraction2:53 Confined to those with 40-50% ejection fraction3:15 Revascularization in NSTEMI4:20 Composite outcome5:20 Closes gap, do FFR6:20 May not be physiologically significant6:40 Is lifelong anticoagulation needed after ablation7:41 Occurred less in those who stopped8:30 RSV, cardiac events and hospitalizations9:30 Lower hospitalization in those who got the vaccine10:30 Acute respiratory illness

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13:30

Brain networks, AI, ADHD and medication affordability

TT HealthWatch ·

2025/08/29

Program notes:0:44 Drug prices aroundthe world1:41 German prices as standard2:40 Wide variation in price and affordability3:40 Generic pricing4:20 ADHD meds and behavior choices5:20 Largely treated with methylphenidate6:20 Significantly impacted suicidality and other behaviors6:49 AI assistance and colonoscopyskills7:49 When you stop AI assistance8:50 Does this apply to other procedures that use AI9:20 Trauma predictive brain networks10:20 Use of hydrocortisone to damp down11:20 Previous trauma

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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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