Go Vegetarian to Avoid COVID? Making Dialysis Centers Work Better
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 a proteomic approach to […]
Open Blood-Brain Barrier for Alzheimer’s Treatment?; Managing TMD
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 a new medication for […]
Dulaglutide, Weight Gain, and Smoking Cessation; New Year’s Eye Injuries
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 doxycycline and sexually transmitted […]
Can Residents Flourish? Managing Common Foot and Ankle Conditions
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 methods of suicide, managing […]
Cannabis Exposure During Pregnancy; Tirzepatide Cessation and Weight Gain
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 metformin plus insulin in […]
Texas Emergency Medicine Residency Program Won’t Shut Down
A Texas emergency medicine residency program was saved from being permanently closed this month after a groundswell of support from residents, physicians, and local politicians, according to reports. On October 12, Christus Spohn Shoreline Hospital administrators informed the residents and faculty of the Corpus Christi Emergency Medicine Residency Program that it would be discontinued in […]
AI and Breast Cancer Screening; Cancer After Treatment for Sickle Cell
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 AI and breast cancer […]
Orphan Drug Costs; Digital Devices for Diabetes
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 a personalized approach to […]
Live Shingles Vaccine and Waning Immunity; Semaglutide and CV Events
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 aspirin and left ventricular […]
Medicare Cuts Would Threaten Patients’ Access to Care
Nov. 8, 2023 Looming Payment Cut Threatens Medicare Patients’ Access to Physicians’ Care – Again Fort Worth radiation oncologist Jerry Barker Jr., MD, worries the physician Medicare pay cut set for January could have dire consequences for his patients, some of whom already struggle to get the care they need. Though he practices in one […]