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 Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week.

This week's topics include socioeconomic status (SES) and brain development in kids, lifestyle changes and multimorbidity, food labeling and childhood obesity, and prehabilitation in older adults.

Program notes:

0:40 Prehabilitation in older adults

1:40 Both pre- and postoperative