September 2021 Archive

Campus Life

TTUHSC named a ‘2021 Great College to Work For®'

  • By Melissa Whitfield
  • September 17, 2021

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) is one of the best colleges in the U.S. to work for, according to a recent survey by The Great Colleges to Work For® program. The results were released in a special insert in the Sept. 17 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Taking a Look at Addiction and Recovery

  • By School of Health Professions
  • September 16, 2021

We spoke with Zachery Sneed, PhD, on what research is teaching us about addiction, the different options patients have in finding recovery, and misconceptions that persist about both.

Dry Needling: Another Tool in a Physical Therapist’s Toolbox

  • By School of Health Professions
  • September 08, 2021

Dry needling can be an effective compliment to physical therapy intervention.

Larry Combest Community Health and Wellness Center Earns Community Health Quality Badges from Health Resources and Services Administration

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • September 03, 2021

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently awarded four 2021 Community Health Quality Recognition badges to the Larry Combest Community Health and Wellness Center at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Nursing.

COVID-19 Vaccines for New and Expecting Mothers: What We Know

  • By Kate Gollahon
  • September 03, 2021

Teresa E. Baker, professor and regional chair of the TTUHSC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Amarillo, and Sireesha Y. Reddy, M.D., chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso, both spoke about COVID-19 and the vaccine for new and expecting moms.

Study Could Lead to New Treatments for Neuroblastoma

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • September 02, 2021

In previous research, a team of investigators led by C. Patrick Reynolds, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine Cancer Center, began studying the potential for using the ways cancer cells maintain telomeres — the protective caps on the end of chromosomes — to attack certain cancer cells.

TTUHSC Otolaryngologist Named a Rising Star by Texas Monthly

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • September 01, 2021

Winslo Idicula, M.D., an otolaryngologist for the Texas Tech Physicians Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) clinic in Lubbock and an assistant professor of otolaryngology for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine, recently was recognized as one of Texas Monthly’s 2021 Texas Super Doctors Rising Stars.

CPRIT Awards Grants to TTUHSC’s Reynolds, Putnam

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • September 01, 2021

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) on Aug. 18 awarded grants to a pair of researchers from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC).

Do you know TIME?

  • By John Griswold, M.D
  • August 31, 2021

John Griswold, M.D., is a Texas Tech Physicians surgeon, director for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Clinical Research Institute and medical director of the University Medical Center Timothy J. Harnar Burn Center.

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