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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...

By the time patients express surprise at the pain they experience during in-office gynecological procedures, we're too late to the pain management conversation. Exclamations of, "Whoa, this is uncomfortable," and the struggle...

Real-world outcomes of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma treated with the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel, Carvykti) showed "favorable" efficacy results, even...

Mary Lawal was 8 years old the first time she tried to take her own life.

Pediatric heat-related illness emergency department volume is associated with higher temperatures and is increasing over time, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics, held from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 in Orlando, Florida.Taylor Merritt, M.D., from the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and c

For patients with obesity, the addition of semaglutide to standard hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) treatments yields improvement in quality of life and a reduction in flares, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, held from Sept. 25 to 28 in Amsterdam.Daniel Lyons, M.D., fro

Adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) have an increased risk for stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA), according to a study published online Sept. 20 in Blood.Olubusola Oluwole, M.D., from the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues determined the cumulative incidence and rates for primary and recurrent strokes and TIAs in pe

Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri, unable to provide abortions in 2018, it shipped some of its equipment to states where abortion remained accessible.

Some states and hospital systems have updated their policies on drug testing for pregnant women and newborns, aiming to better support patients' treatment and recovery from substance use disorder and combat racial disparities in testing and reporting.

The risk for severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and adverse pregnancy outcomes is increased for gestational carriers, or pregnancy surrogates, compared with women conceiving naturally or via in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to a study published online Sept. 24 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Maria P. Velez, M.D., Ph.D., from Que