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Screen Time, Cannabis Risks, and PET Scanning
This week's topics include using CT to help determine brain death, PET scanning for tau in Alzheimer's, screen time trajectories in US youth and mental health, and cannabis and your heart.
Breast And Colorectal Cancer, and CAR-T Therapy
This week's topics include treating hot flashes in breast cancer survivors, a blood test for detecting colorectal cancer, exercise to improve survival after colorectal cancer treatment and CAR-T therapy for solid tumors.
Skin Cancers, Second Stroke Risks, Weight Loss
This week's topics include the worldwide burden of skin cancers, risk of a second stroke when a person is taking anticoagulants, patients supporting each other for weight loss maintenance, and imaging for dense breasts.
Mental Health, Fatty Liver, and Resistant Hypertension
This week's topics include treating resistant hypertension, gabapentanoids and the risk of self harm, risk for depression after diagnosis of a medical condition, and fatty liver and pregnancy.
Syphilis, Medications, and PTSD
This week's topics include USPSTF on screening for syphilis in pregnancy, when to take blood pressure medicines, comparing weight loss drugs, and a narrative intervention for PTSD after an ICU stay.
TT HealthWatch Podcast
This week's topics include large language models and discharge summaries, treating female urinary incontinence, using AI to diagnose diabetic kidney disease, and a Covid/flu vaccine.
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