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 warming mittens for hand osteoarthritis (OA), pediatric gun and automobile casualties, buprenorphine in young people with opioid usage condition (OUD), and e cigarettes and breathing signs.
Program notes:
0:40 Heated mittens and hand osteoarthritis
1:40 Majority ladies, typical 71 years of age
2:40 American College of Rheumatology ambivalent
3:44 Respiratory signs and vapor cigarettes
4:44 Reduced danger for aggravating signs by 30%
5:44 Less damaging?
6:05 Use of buprenorphine in teenagers and young people
7:05 Rate of giving reduced 25%
8:05 Young grownups driving reduced giving
9:05 Ten to nineteen are getting more
9:20 Report on gun and automobile pediatric deaths
10:20 Absolute portion boost in murder
11:20 Highway death increasing
12:09 End
Records:
Elizabeth: Do heated mittens aid with hand osteoarthritis?
Rick: Firearm and automobile pediatric deaths.
Elizabeth: The usage of buprenorphine amongst young folks with opioid usage condition in the United States.
Rick: And does replacing e-cigarettes for cigarettes enhance breathing signs?
Elizabeth: That’s what we’re speaking about 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, I ‘d like to turn very first to The BMJHere, in Baltimore today, it was a huge old 8 ° therefore this problem of heated mittens was sounding respectable to me. In this case, what they are taking a look at is whether electrically heated mittens can assist enhance hand function in individuals who have actually got osteoarthritis in their hands.
This was a research study performed in Denmark. They had 200 folks with hand osteoarthritis who were 42 to 90 years of age– I feel sort of severely for those who are at that young end of the spectrum who established this condition– and they divided them compromise to an intervention group and a control group. They offered them with these electrically heated mittens or control mittens where they detached their heating aspect. They asked to use them for a minimum of 15 minutes daily for 6 weeks and they did this throughout the winter in Denmark, so the external temperature level was actually quite cold. They had 91 individuals in their intervention group and 95 in their control group who finished the trial.
