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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 heal ...
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Multi-Component Vaccine, Urinary Incontinence, Diabetic Kidney Disease and Discharge Summaries
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Program notes: 0:40 Covid and flu vaccine 1:40 More immunogenic response 2:40 Female urinary incontinence treatment 3:40 Mid urethral sling or botox 4:40 Doesn't require surgery 5:40 Combined therapy group 6:10 Large language models and discharge summaries 7:10 100 hospital encounters 8:10 Maybe provides a draft 9:00 AI and diagnosing diabetic kidn…
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Cancer patients, lung cancer, Pepfar cessation, and gun injuries
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Program notes: 0:47 Gun injuries and deer hunting season 1:47 Other associated injuries 2:47 Coincidence of hunting? 3:48 Restrict hunting guns to that use 4:10 Can we avoid surgery in some with cancer? 5:10 Dostarlimab treatment 6:10 Can help avoid surgery in few who have this mutation 7:10 Look at specific pathways 7:30 Lung cancer treatment 8:32…
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Stroke, clot formation, breastfeeding, and prostate cancer
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Program notes: 0:40 Polygenic risk score for prostate cancer 1:40 90th percentile or higher 2:40 Genetic risk for cancer 3:41 Avoid false positives 4:00 Cervical artery dissection and subsequent stroke risk 5:00 High in older people, Black and Hispanic people 6:00 Nonspecific symptoms may predict 7:00 Preventing clotting in patients with cancer 8:0…
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Strep, hearing loss, MS, and TAVR outcomes
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Program notes: 0:33 TAVR outcomes improved 1:33 Dapagliflozin 2:33 Looked at comorbidities 3:00 Tolebrutinib for relapsing MS 4:00 Annualized relapse rate 5:00 Works in the CNS 6:00 First endpoint wasn't proven 6:20 Invasive group A strep 7:20 Become more resistant to antibiotics 8:01 Not a single type of group A strep 8:25 Hearing loss and heart f…
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Diet, dementia, cardiovascular disease and risk factors
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This week's topics include aging and 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 disease 2:00 Additional life years free of CVD 3:00 Irrespective of where you live 3:27 Optimal dietary patterns fo…
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A-fib, bleeding, penicillin, hypertension
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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 afib 1:51 Pulsed field ablation PFA 2:55 Training physicians 3:23 Prothrombin complex versus frozen plasma 4:24 Noninferiority outcome 5:24 Documented bl…
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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 TIA 1:39 About one in five over the next ten years 2:40 Need to continue antiplatelet agents 3:33 New technique for prostate biopsy 4:36 Biopsy n…
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