Prosthesis for Hip Replacement; Testing for Respiratory Viruses in Nursing Homes

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 a dual-action prosthesis for hip replacement, a new inhaled agent for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), testing nursing home residents for respiratory viruses, and online prescribing of GLP-1 receptor agonists.

Program notes:

0:40 Online prescribing of GLP-1 agonists

1:44 Physician asks a number of questions

Prosthesis for Hip Replacement; Testing for Respiratory Viruses in Nursing Homes

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