October 19, 2017

Farming Accident Patient Receives Life-Saving Trauma Care

October 18, 2017

Flu season is coming fast, get your vaccinations early

Flu season is here. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the flu kills about 36,000 people a year in the United States. With Flu activity beginning to increase in October and peaking between December and March, Franklyn C. Babb, M.D., FAAFP, a physician for Texas Tech Physicians — Family Medicine, said don’t make excuses not to get your flu vaccine.

October 17, 2017

You Are Never Too Old to Get Vaccinated

The Free Clinic will partner with the Lubbock Health Department to offer free vaccines from 3 to 5 p.m. every third Wednesday at Lubbock Impact 2707 34th St. Vaccines will include pneumococcal, hepatitis A and B, influenza, TdaP (for tetanus, diphtheria and adult whooping cough), Gardasil (for human papillomavirus), meningococcal (for meningitis) and Zostavax (for shingles).

October 17, 2017

This Halloween, Goggles for All

All grown up, and now an ophthalmologist, I would dearly love to hand out something else besides candy to every family stopping by our house. Not to the little ones, mind you – they’re still getting well-earned Snickers. Everybody else, however, will be receiving a lovely pair of safety goggles. We aren’t talking the slick looking Bono style glasses that barely cover your eyes. I mean true goggles, suctioned on to your face 360 degrees around those cherished eyeballs.

October 12, 2017

23RD ANNUAL TRAUMA AND CRITICAL CARE SYMPOSIUM

October 03, 2017

Pancreatic cancer could be treated with a Parkinson's drug

October 02, 2017

More medicines, new screening tools gaining traction in breast cancer treatment

New treatments and screening tools are enabling patients with Breast Cancer to show improvements in survival by about 10 months. Texas Tech Physicians share these cutting edge tools and how it is changing care for their patients.

September 29, 2017

TTUHSC Selects New Vice President of Research

Quentin Smith, Ph.D., has been named the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) new senior vice president of research. Smith is the current dean of the TTUHSC School of Pharmacy and will serve in that role concurrent with the senior vice president of research.

September 28, 2017

Making a Difference: The Free Clinic Extraordinary Volunteers

September 28, 2017

"Because I can"

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Virginia Holter, DNP, APRN, provided medical attention Dallas mega shelter opened for those displaced by the flooding.