TT HealthWatch Dr. Richard Lange and Elizabeth Tracey

This week's topics include stepped palliative care, active surveillance for prostate cancer, artery inflammation as a predictor of cardiovascular events, and diets and medicine in IBS.

This week's topics include fluoride in pregnancy and outcomes in children, contagion of mental illness, statins in old and very old people, and hypertension after kidney donation.

This week's topics include early diagnosis and treatment of COPD and asthma, use of GLP-1 agonists in adolescents and young adults, implications of new lung function equations, and benefits of cancer drug trials.

This week's topics include a new agent for high triglycerides, the impact of low testosterone on mortality in men, ultra-processed foods and mortality, and cardiovascular risk assessment improvement.

This week's topics include mortality among U.S. youth, updated breast screening guidelines, treating large strokes, and sickle cell treatment.

This week's topics include Medicare negotiation on drugs and a loophole, neomycin for preventing respiratory viral infections, diagnostic error in mental health conditions, and use of two diabetes medications together and subsequent chronic disease risk.