2025 TT HealthWatch Archive

TT HealthWatch - Friday, January 31, 2025

This week's topics include neuropathy after chemotherapy, a comprehensive approach, to dementia care, mortality and falls, and life expectancy and educational attainment.

0:37 Comprehensive care for dementia patients
1:35 Outcome of cognitive impairment progression
2:35 Subgroup analysis
3:30 Mortality and falls
4:30 Older adults at risk
5:30 Increased numbers of older people
6:15 Educational attainment and life expectancy
7:15 Lifespan difference 11 or 12 years
8:15 May have greater access to resources
8:30 Peripheral neuropathy following chemo
9:31 Reporting highest among those treated with platinum-based agents
10:31 Reduce dose or duration?
12:03 End

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TT HealthWatch - Friday, January 24, 2025

This week's topics include a polygenic risk score and COPD, an antibody to reduce bleeding risk in those with AFIB, aspirin use in cardiovascular risk reduction, and best treatments for local esophageal cancer.

0:37 Trends in aspirin use
1:37 Five cycles of NHANES data
2:37 Takes a long time to change habits
3:01 Polygenic risk score added to strategies to identify COPD
4:01 Spirometry confirmed
5:01 Can improve quality of life
6:01 If questionnaire suggests
6:50 Reducing bleeding risk in those taking blood thinners
7:50 Antibody to factor XI
8:55 How to balance bleeding versus clotting
9:39 Strategies for treating esophageal cancer
10:39 Chemo and radiation before surgery
11:36 Incidence increasing worldwide
12:25 Adjuvant nivolumab under investigation
13:23 End

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TT HealthWatch - Friday, January 17, 2025

This week's topics include palliative care in the ED, attempting to improve outcomes in large strokes, lung and associated cancers worldwide, and eyeing risk factors for stroke.

0:40 Eyeing up stroke
1:40 How does it compare to traditional risk factors?
2:40 Large language models to analyze
3:14 Evolving trends in lung cancers worldwide
4:15 Air pollution associated increased
5:15 25% of lung cancers with air pollution
6:15 Less fruit consumption
6:30 improving outcomes in large strokes
7:30 Use of clot-busting agents didn't help
8:27 Palliative care initiated in ED
9:30 Gagne comorbidity score
10:30 Same rate of admission to hospital
11:30 Most palliative care teams available during business hours
12:30 End

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TT HealthWatch - Friday, January 10, 2025

This week's topics include catheter material for PICC lines, a diabetes medication for kidney stones, driver mutation clearance and relapse prediction, and exercise and heart failure.

0:44 Exercise and heart failure 1:44 322 patients with heart failure and normal ejection fraction
2:45 What percentage continued?
3:30 Kidney stone prevention with empagliflozin
4:30 Once-daily followed by placebo
5:30 Also effective in heart failure
6:30 Also in gout?
6:40 Driver mutations in myelofibrosis
7:42 Tested blood for mutations
8:42 Looking for driver mutations for other cancers
9:05 Materials for PICC lines
10:05 Rates of device failure
11:05 Clots or infection possible
12:24 End

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TT HealthWatch - Friday, January 3, 2025

This week's topics include warming mittens for hand osteoarthritis, pediatric firearm and motor vehicle fatalities, buprenorphine in young adults with opioid use disorder, and electronic cigarettes and respiratory symptoms.

0:40 Heated mittens and hand osteoarthritis
1:40 Majority women, average 71 years of age
2:40 American College of Rheumatology ambivalent
3:44 Respiratory symptoms and e-cigarettes
4:44 Reduced risk for worsening symptoms by 30%
5:44 Less harmful?
6:05 Use of buprenorphine in adolescents and young adults
7:05 Rate of dispensing decreased 25%
8:05 Young adults driving decreased dispensing
9:05 Ten to 19 are getting more
9:20 Report on firearm and motor vehicle pediatric deaths
10:20 Absolute percentage increase in homicide
11:20 Highway death increasing
12:09 End

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