Texas Medical Association Sues Feds Over Surprise Billing
The Texas Medical Association (TMA) is challenging a federal law designed to shield patients from surprise medical bills, arguing in a new lawsuit that regulators have stacked the deck against healthcare providers in their implementation of the No Surprises Act. Essentially, TMA takes issue with the arbitration process for settling out-of-network bills, arguing that the […]
Texas Clinics Cancel Abortion Appointments After Court Reinstates Ban
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas clinics on Saturday canceled appointments they had booked during a 48-hour reprieve from the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., which was back in effect as weary providers again turn their sights to the Supreme Court. The Biden administration, which sued Texas over the law known as Senate Bill […]
School-Based COVID Testing; Rural Hospital Mergers
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, 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 probiotics for ventilator-associated pneumonia, artemisinin-resistant malaria, […]
Treating Carotid Stenosis; Social Factors in USPSTF Guidance
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, 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 the value of finding atrial fibrillation […]
Texas Law Banning Abortions at 6 Weeks Goes Into Effect
Update: Late Wednesday night, the Supreme Court refused to block the Texas law in a 5-4 vote. Despite multiple legal challenges by abortion providers and an emergency petition to the Supreme Court, the new Texas law that bans most abortions at or around 6 weeks of pregnancy went into effect at midnight. The bill, known […]
Texans ‘Scared, Confused, Angry’ As Abortion Ban Goes Into Effect
Texas abortion providers scrambled to help as many patients as possible on Tuesday while the clock ticked closer to midnight, marking the start of the country’s most extreme abortion ban. The new law, known as Senate Bill 8, makes providing abortion care after six weeks gestation a criminal act in Texas, and allows ordinary citizens […]
COVID Closes Texas Town; Vax Resistant Strain ‘Likely’?; Oregon’s Outdoor Mask Rule
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. COVID has hit this small Texas town so hard that the schools closed and then the town shut down. (CNN) The Ohio legislature is considering a bill that would bar employers in the state from instituting vaccine mandates for their employees. (Associated Press) Ohio State University, […]
Wildfires and COVID; Healthcare Inequities; A New Migraine Treatment
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, 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 wildfire smoke and COVID, metabolic rate […]
Preoperative Isolation; Ultra-Processed Food in Kids; Gestational Diabetes Detection
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, 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 the impact of preoperative isolation, ultra-processed […]
Tapering Opioid Dosage; Citing Retracted Studies: It’s TTHealthWatch!
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, 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 what happens when a study is […]