PodMed TT

Series produced by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso

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PodMed TT 

Your weekly look at the medical headlines from Texas Tech University Health Sciences El Paso.

Featuring:

Dr. Richard Lange, President of TTUHSC El Paso and Dean at the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

Elizabeth Tracey, a medical journalist at Johns Hopkins University


43 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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This week’s topics include a comparison of bariatric procedures, a look at DOACs versus warfarin, treatment of mild hypertension, and antibiotic an...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 12:21
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This week’s topics include the impact of cardiovascular fitness on mortality, increasing calories in the ICU, denial of coverage for ED visits, and...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 10:21
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This week’s topics include PUFAs and healthy aging, reduction in cardiovascular events in people with type 2 diabetes using bariatric surgery, adul...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 10:46
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This week’s topics include undiagnosed diseases, sexual assault and mental and physical health in women, timing of TDAP in pregnancy, and statins b...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 10:48
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This week’s topics include preventing fractures in those with osteopenia, the obesity trajectory from childhood, risk factors for hypertension in b...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 10:43
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Repairing the mitral valve without surgery, walking after complete spinal cord injury, medical information from digital assistants, and antibiotic ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 10:35
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This week’s topics include aspirin in the healthy elderly, marijuana in vaping devices among U.S. youth, obesity management in primary care, and po...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 10:35
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Pharmacist intervention for long-term blood pressure control, HPV and cancer, teenagers with reduced cognitive ability at higher risk of developing...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 11:32
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The burden of firearm death worldwide, does aspirin or fish oil help people with diabetes, and anticoagulation following hospitalization.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 10:22
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This week’s topics include Parkinson’s disease and metabolic syndrome, lorcaserin and heart problems, the global burden of alcohol related disease,...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 10:34
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Living a healthy life and dementia risk, how much combination medicines cost Medicare, cervical cancer screening, and LDL cholesterol in those at l...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 10:14
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This week’s topics include vaccination in pregnant women and ASD, treating stroke outside the window, smoking, mortality and weight gain, and five ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 10:44
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This week’s topics include secondhand smoke and adolescents, labor induction, screening young athletes for cardiac problems and ADHD medicines.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 10:21
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This week’s topics include caliber of bullets and handgun deaths, a novel agent for dilated cardiomyopathy, getting genomic screening into clinical...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 10:45
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This week’s topics include head injury and CT, Medicare versus Walmart, use of osteoporosis meds after hip fracture, and persistent Ebola infection.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 10:42
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This week’s topics include tick borne illness, late life blood pressure and stroke, a simple ED intervention to reduce suicidality, and fecal occul...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 10:30
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This week’s topics include USPSTF recommendations on nontraditional risk factors for heart disease, the role of genetics in congestive heart failur...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 10:18
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This week’s topics include DOACs and warfarin, use of defibrillators after Department of Justice involvement, HPV testing versus Pap smears, and in...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 10:47
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This week’s topics include hospital at home, using a virus to treat brain cancer, updated osteoporosis guidelines, and an artificial pancreas in ho...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 10:29
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This week’s topics include the emotional consequences of gun violence, a single test to diagnose diabetes, use of medicines to help addiction after...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 10:30