Daily Dose

Amarillo Archive

August 31, 2020

TTUHSC Amarillo Employees Honored as Texans Caring for Texans

Each year state agencies from the upper 26 counties in the Texas Panhandle are invited to select an employee or team of employees to receive a Texans Caring for Texans award.

tags: Amarillo, COVID-19, Faculty, School of Health Professions, School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Staff, Stories

August 31, 2020

TTUHSC Wins Awards for COVID-19 Social Media Campaigns

The TTUHSC Office of Communications & Marketing recently received one gold award and one honorable mention for social media campaigns entered in the 2020 dotCOMM Awards.

tags: Abilene, Amarillo, COVID-19, Dallas, General, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Lubbock, Miscellaneous, Permian Basin, School of Health Professions, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, Staff, Statline, Stories

July 29, 2020

Vitamin Exposures on the Rise in Texas

Vitamin exposure calls are on in the increase in Texas. Texas Poison Centers have seen a 55% increase in exposures to pediatric vitamins, a 35 percent increase in human exposure calls to vitamins overall and a more than 24 percent increase in exposure to melatonin calls from March through June of this year.

tags: Amarillo, COVID-19, School of Pharmacy, Statline, Stories

July 16, 2020

Face Masks and Face Coverings: Do They Work in the Fight Against COVID-19?

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, much debate has surrounded the use of masks and face coverings. Let’s put this debate to an end.

tags: Amarillo, COVID-19, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

July 02, 2020

Amarillo Physician Advises Heat Safety Awareness

As the temperatures continue to rise, Rodney Young, M.D., FAAFP, advises people to lookout for signs and symptoms of heat-related stress when working or playing outside.

tags: Amarillo, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians

June 19, 2020

Snake Bites on the Increase in Texas

Reports of snake bites are on in the increase in Texas. Texas Poison Centers have seen a more than 40 percent increase in snake bite calls this year over last year. To date, there have been 372 in 2020.

tags: Amarillo, School of Pharmacy, Statline, Stories

June 10, 2020

TTUHSC Earns High Marks in Global Higher Education Ranking

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) has ranked TTUHSC among the top 7.1% of 20,000 universities worldwide for 2020-2021.

tags: Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Lubbock, Miscellaneous, Permian Basin, School of Health Professions, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, Statline, Stories

June 09, 2020

New Texas Tech Physicians Headache Clinic Offers Hope to Headache and Migraine Sufferers in the Panhandle

The newly-established Texas Tech Physicians Headache Clinic is providing a multidisciplinary approach to treatment by ushering patients to make lifestyle changes and encouraging natural and homeopathic remedies, nutritional counseling, physical therapy, medications, injection therapy and acute rescue therapy for adults.

tags: Amarillo, Statline, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians

May 29, 2020

Texas Tech Physicians Doctors Make "Top Docs" Lists

This year, more than 100 Texas Tech Physicians doctors were recognized by fellow area physicians as being among the best in their field and included in Amarillo Magazine’s and Lubbock Magazine's "Top Docs" lists.

tags: Amarillo, Lubbock, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians

May 19, 2020

TTUHSC Recognizes School of Pharmacy Faculty, Staff

The TTUHSC Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy conducted its annual Celebration of Achievement May 8 to recognize faculty and staff who have helped make the 2019-2020 school year a special one for students.

tags: Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas, Faculty, Lubbock, School of Pharmacy, Staff, Stories, Students

← Newer Posts

Older Posts →