Advances in Breast Cancer Treatment; Stroke After COVID Vaccination

MedPage Today March 23, 2024
Rick Lange, MD, Texas Tech; Elizabeth Tracey,

— Also in TTHealthWatch: oxygen targets in critically ill people

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 advances in treating early breast cancer, stroke after COVID vaccination, anti-seizure meds during pregnancy and ASD, and oxygen targets in critically ill people.

Program notes:

0:38 Stroke after bivalent COVID vaccine

1:35 No increased risk with this vaccine alone

2:32 Public messaging

2:41 Personalized oxygen settings for patients in the ICU

3:41 Lower level resulted in more days alive...