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Date created
2014/08/30
Latest episode
2026/04/17
Average duration
13 min.
Release period
7 days
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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. 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 care.
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TT HealthWatch - April 17, 2026
2026/04/17
Program notes:
0:34 Chronotrope type and timing of exercise
1:36 Sedentary adults and morning or evening type
2:36 Acting as your own control
3:10 Stenting for post thrombotic syndrome
4:10 Severity lower with endovascular therapy
5:10 Patent in 2/3 at six months
6:10 Very diverse patient populations
6:28 Estimating kidney function
7:28 Currently underestimate compromise
8:27 Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors
9:27 Three different interventions
10:27 Almost 15% achieved outcome in both patient and physician
12:08 End
TT HealthWatch - April 10, 2026
2026/04/10
Program notes:
0:36 How low should cholesterol be targeted in secondary prevention?
1:40 33% reduction with target to 55
2:36 Able to do it with statin and other drugs
3:03 Deprescribing levothyroxine
4:06 Were able to discontinue in many
5:05 Thyroid not as responsive with aging
6:05 Barriers to deprescribing?
6:31 Treatment of HTN in low-income patients
7:31 75% unemployed
8:31 Patient participates
9:06 Manufacturer coupon use
10:10 Annual patient use of coupons
11:18 Used to drive people to use drugs that are expensive
12:33 End
TT HealthWatch - April 3, 2026
2026/04/03
Program notes:
0:38 Migrating biopharma industry
1:36 Early stage development
2:36 Need to replicate studies
3:23 Treatment for fatigue from long Covid
4:25 Fluvoxamine or metformin
5:25 Only fluvoxamine helped
6:25 Only for fatigue
6:35 How treatments for hepatitis C have been used
7:36 Number of people receiving treatment declining
8:36 Need a better system
9:16 Dulaglutide or tirzepatide and patient reported outcomes
10:17 Quality of life metrics
11:43 End
TT HealthWatch - March 27, 2026
2026/03/27
Program notes:
0:36 High versus standard-dose flu vaccines in older people
1:36 Cardiovascular outcomes
2:26 Also in those with previous CVD
3:10 Cooking and dementia risk
4:10 Cooking frequency and skills assessment
5:10 Tasks relative to preparing a meal at home
6:10 Encourage home cooking
6:30 Asymptomatic aortic stenosis treatment
7:30 Replace valve before symptoms
8:30 Trained cardiologist can grade
9:10 Pediatric sepsis in U.S. hospitals
10:17 About 51,000 cases
11:17 Adult criteria may not be in EHR
12:29 End
TT HealthWatch - March 20, 2026
2026/03/20
Program notes:
0:35 New cholesterol lowering guidelines
1:35 Risk scores new
2:35 Mainstay is behavioral change
3:35 For those with a longer view
4:00 AI based glaucoma screening in primary care settings
5:00 Either AI or pressure
6:00 Fundus photograph and intraocular pressure
7:00 Sensitivity and specificity
7:50 Diet and brain structure
8:50 Brain imaging over ten or fifteen years
9:50 Diet that's been advocated for a long time
10:55 Surveying wastewater for colorectal cancer markers
11:55 CDH1 marker measurement
12:55 Shows promise for intervention
13:57 End
TT HealthWatch - March 13, 2026
2026/03/13
Program notes:
0:44 Adolescents and sleep duration
1:44 Very short sleep duration
2:44 Increased among all subgroups
3:45 Structural factors more important
4:45 Moving school start later
5:02 GLP1 agonists and various patient characteristics
6:02 Greater weight loss in women
7:06 A blood test to predict onset of symptomatic Alzheimer's
8:06 Median error of 3-4 years
9:06 Window of 11.4 years for an 80 year old
10:05 Screening for colorectal cancer
11:05 Colonoscopy and FIT diagnosed early
12:33 End
TT HealthWatch - March 6, 2026
2026/03/06
Program notes:
0:37 HIV treatment monthly injections
1:37 Long acting and effective
2:37 Some didn't come for monthly injections
3:16 COVID-19 vaccination and preeclampsia rate
4:16 In two successive cohorts during pandemic
5:16 Pre-existing morbidity 58% reduction
6:15 COVID-19 cytokine storm?
6:45 Monkeypox treatment
7:45 Randomized to placebo or smallpox drug
8:50 Menstrual blood to test for HPV
9:50 Minipad essentially the same as clinician collection
10:45 Can make it cost effective?
11:49 End
TT HealthWatch - Feb. 27, 2026
2026/02/27
Program notes:
0:37 Hormone therapy and mortality
1:37 Those who used versus those unexposed
2:35 Different types of HT
3:32 Adolescent cannabis use and mental illness
4:32 Screened in physician office
5:32 Action at societal and government levels
6:00 Access to dialysis facilities and SES
7:01 2.3 % of advantaged communities lacked access
8:01 For profit centers consolidate
9:01 Roughly half of nephrology spots unfilled
9:33 ACOs and Medicare savings
10:33 Initial study showed net savings
11:16 Fragile savings estimate
12:09 End
TT HealthWatch - Feb. 20, 2026
2026/02/20
Program notes:
0:35 Diabetes and food prescriptions
1:35 Got a food card to purchase nutritious foods
2:32 More than half didn't use it or used it less than 60%
3:00 Adequacy of a planetary health diet
4:00 Micronutrient intake and biomarkers
5:00 Doesn't seem to compromise long-term health
6:12 Statin recommendations and patient preferences
7:00 Benefit/risk analysis for patients
8:00 Patient's decisions are multifactorial
9:00 Resistance to daily medication
9:30 Findings on shoulder MRI
10:35 Rotator cuff abnormalities in almost 99%
11:35 Almost ubiquitous regardless of symptoms
12:25 Physical therapy best strategy
13:23 End
TT HealthWatch - Feb. 13, 2026
2026/02/13
Program notes:
0:38 Removal of fallopian tubes to prevent ovarian ca
1:43 129 studies included
2:43 Women who no longer desire pregnancy
3:40 Technically feasible
4:30 New oral PCSK9 inhibitor
5:35 Think it's a slam dunk
6:08 EHR helping deprescribing in older adults
7:08 Two sequential EHR interventions
8:08 40% more likely in one group
9:08 Something in email less effective
9:50 Benefits of knee braces for OA
10:50 Brace specific to area of OA
12:00 If it results in a placebo effect
13:00 End
TT HealthWatch - Feb. 6, 2026
2026/02/06
Program notes:
0:50 Rapid recovery of hearts for transplant after circulatory death
1:50 Total ischemic time longer than 4 hours
2:50 Typically reanimate
3:50 Expanded to donors 40 years of age
4:55 Do women with PCOS have increased risk for arrhythmia
5:55 Incidence arrhythmia in these women increased risk
6:50 An LLM to streamline transitions from primary to secondary care
7:50 Used alone, with staff support, or control
8:51 Decreased amount of time in the consult
9:52 Things that accumulate data will be embraced
10:12 Treating gout to prevent CVD
11:12 Lowered in about a fourth of patients
12:36 End
TT HealthWatch - Jan. 30, 2026
2026/01/30
Program notes:
0:45 Impact on kids of parental firearm injury or death
1:46 Eight additional psychiatric diagnoses per 100,000
2:39 Lifetime stress, inflammation and racial disparities in mortality
3:40 Black individuals shorter survival
4:40 Precise number is difficult to understand
5:40 Self-report
6:45 If a woman has known CVD, can she discontinue statins in pregnancy?
7:45 No difference in woman's health
8:45 Over a 14-year period
9:00 Policy compliance in leading tobacco brands
10:00 Instagram, FTC and FDA policies
11:00 Cut across all types of nicotine products
12:59 End
TT HealthWatch - Jan. 23, 2026
2026/01/23
Program notes:
0:40 Two MMWR reports on wastewater to detect measles
1:40 Subsequent detection after early identification
2:40 Watch worldwide transition
3:15 Weight regain after medication for weight management
4:16 Cardiometabolic risk factors return in just over a year
5:16 Willingness to use declined with knowledge of regain risk
6:16 Prevention of obesity
6:33 Chronic kidney disease and heart failure link
7:35 Extracellular vesicles found
8:35 Precise identification of a tangle pathway
9:03 Physical activity types, varieties and mortality
10:03 Higher variety conferred additional survival benefit
11:03 Will you change your behavioral?
12:03 Lower hypertension, BMI
12:39 End
TT HealthWatch - Jan. 16, 2026
2026/01/16
Program notes:
0:38 Childhood vaccinations nationally
1:30 Across 45 states and DC
2:34 Level of vaccine protection
3:34 Professional societies stepping in
3:51 Skilled nursing facilities
4:51 Estimated operating capacity
5:51 Backups into hospitals
6:51 Staffing not returned to pre-pandemic levels
7:35 Prescribing patterns of CNS active meds in older adults
8:36 Several classes of medication examined
9:36 Last line medications
9:50 Mifepristone regulation historically
10:50 Consistent findings on safety
11:50 FDA looking at REMS
12:50 End
TT HealthWatch - Jan. 9, 2026
2026/01/09
Program notes:
0:35 Global pain burden
1:35 Prevalence increased in 15 countries
2:35 Higher prevalence in older people but not consequence of aging
3:02 Tertiary patents
4:03 in the Orange Book
5:05 Prolonged patent protection and higher prices
6:07 Focused on high revenue products
6:50 Detecting DVT better
7:51 Age specific D-dimer cutoffs
8:51 Age and morbidity factors
9:23 Infant screen time and adolescent anxiety
10:24 Multiple intermediate assessments
11:24 Accelerates development
12:47 End
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Hank Ak 2023/03/01
The Best
This is my favorite podcast by far. Dr Lange and Ms Tracey do a great job discussing and explaining the latest medical research. They explain in under...
James Marroquin 2022/05/25
A great show!
This podcast takes all the most important studies every week and presents them in an understandable way. The hosts discuss the limitations and applica...
EricLevine 2018/07/04
My favorite podcast
Out of the 20 or so podcasts I subscribe to, this is without doubt my favorite. The topics are always interesting and informative. Rick and Elizabet...
Doccdr11 2018/03/17
Have listened for years
Thankfully found this after they moved from johns Hopkins URL.
Bite sized info from across the medical knowledge spectrum... Fast paced and always in...
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