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, take a look at the leading medical stories of the week.
Today’s subjects consist of a longitudinal research study of Alzheimer’s markers, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells for autoimmunity, approaches of unlawful opioid overdose, and security and effectiveness of telemedicine abortion.
Program notes:
0:35 Method of usage in drug overdose deaths in 2022
1:35 Smoking most typical
2:30 Smoking, snorting, injection, and consumption
3:20 Effectiveness and security of telemedicine abortion
4:20. 99.8% NOT followed by a negative occasion
5:20 Multiple groups benefit
6:20 Women who experience unintentional pregnancy
7:00 New treatment for autoimmune illness
8:00 How costly are they?
8:36 Biomarkers previous to Alzheimer’s
9:36 Tau and overall tau
10:36 Very long follow-up
11:36 Back up treatment really early on
12:41 End
Records:
Elizabeth: Predicting Alzheimer’s with a variety of markers.
Rick: Routes of substance abuse in individuals that pass away of a drug overdose.
Elizabeth: The security of telemedicine abortion.
Rick: And a brand-new treatment for autoimmune illness.
Elizabeth: That’s what we’re discussing today on TT HealthWatch, your weekly take a look at the medical headings from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. I’m Elizabeth Tracey, a Baltimore-based medical reporter.
Rick: And I’m Rick Lange, president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, where I’m likewise Dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine.
Elizabeth: Rick, why do not you choose your option?
Rick: This is a current report in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ReportIt’s entitled “Routes of Drug Use Among Drug Overdose Deaths, 2020-2022”. It is an unfortunate state of affairs to report that there have actually been more than 109,000 drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2022. Almost 70% of those included artificial opioids besides methadone. Mainly we’re speaking about fentanyl and fentanyl-laced drugs or analogs. The drug intake path for fentanyl and those triggering drug overdose altered significantly.
What they figured out in these nearly 110,000 drug overdose deaths is the ones due to injection reduced by about 30%, whereas the portion with proof of smoking cigarettes increased nearly 75%. Now smoking cigarettes, not injection, is the most typically recorded path of usage in overdose deaths with, once again, fentanyl and fentanyl analogs being the most typical substance abuse.
Elizabeth: I had the ability to talk to the other day among my associates at Hopkins, who is a compound usage condition specialist, on this extremely information. He informed me since he stated, “We should not simply state cigarette smoking”– due to the fact that a few of it certainly is warming it and after that breathing in the vapors– however there is likewise a substantial quantity of what total up to snorting it that is likewise happening which’s adding to this.