One Doc’s Win for Trans Youth Healthcare in Texas
Amid the state’s aggressive push to roll back rights for transgender youth, a Texas endocrinologist has had to fight to keep treating new patients at the clinic she founded. Ximena Lopez, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist at Children’s Medical Center (CMC), and an associate professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, will once again be […]
Don’t Let Accidental Overdose Ruin Your Holidays (and Your Life)
The holidays are a time of joy and celebration for many, but they could turn tragic if someone takes one pill they should not. Substance misuse – especially unwittingly taking street drugs that contain fentanyl – can destroy a life. “The use of mind-altering substances is always more prevalent during the holidays. Unfortunately, this holiday […]
Drug, Alcohol Deaths in Those Over 65; Medicare Advantage and Heart Attacks
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include benefits of 13 valent […]
TMA Seeks to Protect Patients’ Access to Care in New “No Surprises Act” Rules Lawsuit
Nov. 30 2022 AUSTIN — Amid concerns about threats to patients’ access to physicians’ care, the Texas Medical Association (TMA) has filed a new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, challenging certain portions of the July 2021 interim final rules implementing the federal No Surprises Act (NSA). This is the third […]
CDC Details Rabies Death After Boy Goes Untreated Following Bat Bite
Public health officials released details on how a 7-year-old boy from Texas died from a rare rabies infection last year. Although the boy had informed his parents he had been bitten by a bat while playing outside his apartment home, there were no visible bite marks, so the parents did not seek rabies postexposure prophylaxis […]
Community-Based Asymptomatic COVID Testing; Particulate Matter in Lungs
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include community-based asymptomatic testing for […]
Hearing Loss and Dementia; Burden of Death From Bacterial Infections
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include stopping cervical cancer screening, […]
Consequences of COVID Reinfection; Tobacco Use Among America’s Youth
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include consequences of COVID reinfection, […]
High-fat diet can provoke pain sensitivity without obesity, diabetes
A new study in mice from researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas suggests that a short-term exposure to a high-fat diet may be linked to pain sensations even in the absence of a prior injury or a preexisting condition like obesity or diabetes. The study, published Sept. 1 in the journal Scientific Reports, […]
Role of Cytoreductive Nephrectomy Unclear for Dedifferentiated Kidney Cancer
AUSTIN, Texas — Cytoreductive nephrectomy improved overall survival (OS) by more than a year for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) with sarcomatoid or rhabdoid (S/R) dedifferentiation treated with immunotherapy in an observational study, but the difference did not achieve statistical significance. Median OS was 30 months with surgery versus 17 months without, representing […]