Do People Buy Into Hospital-at-Home Care?; Nicotine Pouch Use

MedPage Today July 13, 2024
Rick Lange, MD, Texas Tech; Elizabeth Tracey, Johns Hopkins Medicine

— Also in TTHealthWatch: preventing kidney transplant rejection

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 a new agent to help prevent kidney transplant rejection, more effective medications to reduce kidney disease and CVD in people with diabetes, use of nicotine pouches nationally, and acceptability of hospital at home.

Program notes:

0:40 Hospital-at-home care

1:40 Recover faster at home

2:41 Nicotine pouch use nationally

3:41 Assessed smoking status

4:41 Mouth lesions possible

5:32 Medication to mitigate multiple...

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