February 2022 Archive

Health

The Beat Goes On With a Healthy Heart

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • February 08, 2022

Scott Shurmur, M.D., a cardiologist for Texas Tech Physicians and chair for the Department of Internal Medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, offers tips to avoid coronary heart disease.

Health

A Brief History of Medical Testing

  • By School of Health Professions
  • February 07, 2022

Point-of-care testing is a modern medical convenience that has countless benefits for patients and providers.

Pregnancy and COVID Can Be Deadly Together

  • By Marjorie Jenkins, M.D.
  • February 02, 2022

CDC has issued an urgent warning for pregnant women to become fully vaccinated, as data reveals being pregnant with COVID increases the chance of admission to the ICU and increases the death rate by 70 percent.

Campus Life

AMA Honors TTUHSC's Victor Test With Medal of Valor

  • By AMA Press Release
  • February 02, 2022

The American Medical Association (AMA) honored Lubbock, Texas, critical care specialist Victor J. Test, MD, with the AMA Medal of Valor for his work on behalf of patients and his community in the COVID-19 epidemic.

Research

NIH Awards Grant to TTUHSC Researcher

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • February 01, 2022

To better understand the role of extracellular vesicles in the spread and progression of LAM, the NIH recently awarded a four-year, $2.8 million grant to Magdalena Karbowniczek, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of immunotherapeutics and biotechnology at the TTUHSC Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy.

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