Women who are pregnant should receive the TDAP—that’s tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis—vaccine with the goal of protecting their unborn child from infections, especially whooping cough or pertussis, in…
When medical professionals want to stay in the loop on breaking medical news, there is one podcast they tune into week after week: PodMed TT. Hosted by Texas…
If you’re a woman about to give birth for the first time—so-called “nulliparous” in medical jargon—is it better to induce labor at 39 weeks or simply wait and…
What can we learn from continuous glucose monitoring for a few weeks and standardized food challenges among people who haven’t been diagnosed with diabetes? A lot, as Rick…
If you’re a Medicare beneficiary on any of a host of generic drugs for common medical conditions like diabetes or high blood pressure, you may be economically better…
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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso President Richard Lange, M.D., M.B.A., has been appointed as panel chair for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Circulatory Systems…
