TT HealthWatch
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 care.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 70 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2025
LSD and Anxiety, Cardiac Rehab, CT and Pregnancy, and Resistant Hypertension
This week's topics include LSD and anxiety disorders, cardiac rehab in older people after MI, CT and pregnancy outcomes, and a new agent for treatment of resistant hypertension.
00:13:16 |
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Post-MI Care, NSTEMI Revascularization, Afib Anticoagulation, and RSV Outcomes
This week's topics include use of beta blockers after MI, revascularization in NSTEMI, discontinuation of blood thinners after ablation for afib, and use of RSV vaccination and hospitalization and ot…
00:13:16 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
Brain networks, AI, ADHD and medication affordability
This week's topics include trauma predictive brain networks, AI and colonoscopy, ADHD treatment and behavior choices, and medication affordability around the world.
Program notes:
0:44 Drug prices …
00:13:30 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Staph Treatment, Type 2 Diabetes, and Cancer Care
This week's topics include who's delivering cancer care, new treatment for staph, diet and type 2 diabetes and potatoes and type 2 diabetes.
Program notes:
0:44 Spuds are what we call potatoes
1:4…
00:12:11 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Health care after dementia diagnosis, alteplase after stroke, obesity and IVF, and ultraprocessed foods
This week's topics include men and women's use of health care and death after dementia dx, alteplase after stroke, obesity and IVF outcomes, and ultraprocessed foods, minimally processed foods, weigh…
00:11:42 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Covid Variants, Antithrombotics, Contraception, and CRC Screening
This week's topics include sex differences in response to antithrombotics, variants of Covid in people with persistent infection, making contraception free, and CRC screening in young adults.
00:13:24 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Flu in kids, obesity risk score, cognition lifestyle intervention, and HPV, immune dysfunction and carcinoma
This week's topics include severe flu complications for kids, a polygenic risk score for obesity, lifestyle intervention for cognition, and a case report on the intersection of HPV, immune dysfunctio…
00:12:08 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Characterizing Cancers, Human Phenotype project, and CBT by telehealth
This week's topics include the Human Phenotype project, CBT by telehealth and chronic pain, looking at RNA to characterize cancers, and air pollution and cognitive impairment with age.
Program notes…
00:11:58 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Reanimating Hearts, Suicide Among Older Adults, Opiate Use Disorder, and Breast Cancer
This week's topics include reanimating hearts for transplant, suicidality among older adults, OUD treatment in primary care, and DCIS outcomes without surgery.
Program notes:
0:44 Reanimating heart…
00:12:43 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Kids’ Health, Life Expectancy and Heart Risk Calculators
This week's topics include a comprehensive look at kid's health in the US, remaining life expectancy deficits after Covid, heart risk calculators in different ethnicities, and screening for hep C in …
00:13:17 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Aphasia After Stroke, Chemotherapy Drugs, and New Hypertension Medicine
This week's topics include a novel way to help aphasia post-stroke, a new type of hypertension medicine, ED boarding in older adults, and substandard chemotherapy drugs.
Program notes:
0:40 A novel…
00:12:49 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
Oral GLP-1 agonist, Satiety Pathways, and Stem Cell tx for T1D
This week's topics include an oral GLP-1 agonist, activating two satiety pathways, mental health in US adolescents, and stem cell tx for T1D
Program notes:
0:40 Stem cells for type 1 diabetes
1:40 …
00:12:57 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Screen Time, Cannabis Risks, and PET Scanning
This week's topics include using CT to help determine brain death, PET scanning for tau in Alzheimer's, screen time trajectories in US youth and mental health, and cannabis and your heart.
Program …
00:12:43 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Family Affluence, Gut Bugs, Heat Illness, and Low Potassium Diets
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 diabet…
00:12:39 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Breast And Colorectal Cancer, And CAR-T Therapy
This week's topics include treating hot flashes in breast cancer survivors, a blood test for detecting colorectal cancer, exercise to improve survival after colorectal cancer treatment and CAR-T ther…
00:13:19 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Skin Cancers, Second Stroke Risks, Weight Loss
This week's topics include the worldwide burden of skin cancers, risk of a second stroke when a person is taking anticoagulants, patients supporting each other for weight loss maintenance, and imagin…
00:12:49 |
Fri 30 May 2025
Mental Health, Fatty Liver, and Resistant Hypertension
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.
00:12:33 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Syphilis, Medications, and PTSD
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.
00:12:42 |
Fri 16 May 2025
Multi-Component Vaccine, Urinary Incontinence, Diabetic Kidney Disease and Discharge Summaries
This week's topics include large language models and discharge summaries, treating female urinary incontinence, using AI to diagnose diabetic kidney disease, and a Covid/flu vaccine.
00:12:29 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Cancer patients, lung cancer, Pepfar cessation, and gun injuries
This week's topics include a way to avoid surgery for some patients with cancer, a new treatment for a form of lung cancer, likely outcomes with Pepfar cessation, and gun injuries and deer season.
00:13:07 |
Fri 02 May 2025
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