TT HealthWatch - Friday, May 10, 2024
This week's topics include mortality among U.S. youth, updated breast screening guidelines, treating large strokes, and sickle cell treatment.
0:34 Sickle cell treatment
1:34 Take out progenitor cells
2:34 Side effects of treatment and cost
3:32 Significantly decreases survival
3:43 Racial and ethnic differences in mortality in U.S. youth
4:45 About twice as high among other ethnicities
5:48 Black youth eight times more likely to die of asthma
6:40 Treatment of very large strokes
7:40 333 patients within six hours
8:45 Practice changing
9:00 Breast cancer screening guidelines update
10:00 Older women and additional screening not known
11:00 Don't apply to some women
12:05 End