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What is Molecular Pathology?

  • By School of Health Professions
  • November 11, 2019

Is personalized medicine the future of health care? Many health professionals — including Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Associate Professor of Molecular Pathology, Katie Bennett — believe the field is headed in that direction.

TTUHSC Physician Assistant Program 20th Anniversary

  • By Emily Holeva
  • November 06, 2019

TTUHSC Named One of the Best for Vets in the Nation

  • By Suzanna Cisneros
  • November 06, 2019

MilitaryTimes’ newest Best for Vets: Colleges 2020 ranked Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) 10th in the country under the category of Career and Technical Colleges.

Garrison Institute on Aging to Present National Alzheimer’s Disease and Awareness Month

  • By Suzanna Cisneros
  • November 06, 2019

More than 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Garrison Institute on Aging along with the Center for Translational Neuroscience and Therapeutics, Pharmacology and Neuroscience Department will present the “National Alzheimer’s Disease and Awareness Month” to highlight numerous aspects of the disease.

TTUHSC’s Stark Enjoys Role as the Area’s Only Addiction Psychiatrist

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • November 05, 2019

When Amy Stark, M.D., entered medical school in 2009, she did so with the intention of becoming a surgeon specializing in breast cancer. Those intentions remained generally unchanged until the end of her third year. Now, a decade later, she is the only addiction psychiatrist in Amarillo.

Celebrating Cultures and Education

  • By Suzanna Cisneros
  • November 05, 2019

SNMA is one of the nation’s oldest and largest independent, student-run organizations focused on the needs and concerns of culturally diverse medical students. The TTUHSC School of Medicine SNMA chapter participates in various projects including mentoring undergraduate students, promoting health care fields with elementary students, organizing community health fairs, working with the undergraduate community and helping improve medical school curriculum and admissions.

TTUHSC Researchers Publish Preclinical Data on New Drug Combination to Treat Neuroblastoma

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • November 04, 2019

Neuroblastoma is the most common cancer outside of the brain in infants and young children and often fails to respond to therapy. Though it can appear in several areas of the body, it commonly develops as a solid tumor most frequently found in or adjacent to the adrenal glands, which sit atop the kidneys.

Flu Shots Can Help Make the Season More Enjoyable for Everyone

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • November 04, 2019

In addition to decreasing the amount of influenza virus in circulation, the flu shot can decrease the severity of symptoms should a vaccinated person still contract the virus.

The Fight Continues Against Alzheimer’s Disease

  • By Gabriela Arandia, Ph.D.
  • November 04, 2019

In 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan declared November as National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month to foster awareness and inspire action against Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia among older adults. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning, which affects memory, behavior, problem solving, self-management and in some cases loss of emotional control and personality changes, all of which interfere with daily activities and severely affect quality of life.

Making a Difference: The Free Clinic Extraordinary Volunteers

  • By Suzanna Cisneros
  • November 01, 2019

I started volunteering at The Free Clinic as a sophomore at Texas Tech University after hearing about it through a premed society I was a member of. I really enjoyed getting to work with medical students, residents and attendings all while being able to give back to my community.

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