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, look at the top medical stories of the week.

This week's topics include men and women's use of healthcare and death after dementia diagnosis; alteplase after stroke; obesity and in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes; and ultraprocessed foods, minimally processed foods, weight loss, and cardiometabolic risk factors.

Program notes:

0:40 Alteplase after stroke

1:40 Expand time window

2:40 Imaging crucial in use

3:20 Utilization of healthcare and mortality in those with dementia

4:20 Women used much less healthcare

5:20 Focus on prevention in women

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