Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center News

No more "mister" for this region. Now it's Dr. Permian Basin - with an M.D. after it.

Nearly 2,700 students applied to the new Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, but fewer than 2 percent were accepted.

The Phoenix office of SmithGroup architects is making a big play for business in Texas with the announcement that Dallas firm F&S Partners will become a SmithGroup office.

SmithGroup Inc. , a Detroit-based architecture firm, has acquired a Dallas-based architecture firm to boost its presence in Texas.

Dr. Jose Manuel de la Rosa rarely lifts the curtain into his personal life. De la Rosa is just not the type to shine the spotlight on himself, not the type to brag about his achievements as one of El Paso's prominent Mexican-American leaders, and not the type to hog the credit as the often outspoken but diplomatic founding dean of the Texas Tech ...

The project, funded by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, provides $6.77 million over 26 months to establish 30 patient sites to expand and study access to pediatric primary and specialty care for Medicaid enrolled children in rural communities throughout West Texas.

Abilene-area rural communities possibly could benefit from a $6.77 million grant from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to establish telemedicine locations for pediatric patients, an official with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center said Thursday.

Former first lady Laura Bush was the keynote speaker Monday at a luncheon hosted by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and held at the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas.

CHARLOTTE a ' Dr. Faith Drew has been named clinic director of the Pfeiffer Institute for Marriage and Family Therapy, a therapy and training clinic located at 4805 Park Road, Suite 250, between McAlister's Deli and Pfeiffer University's Charlotte campus.

Texas Tech is getting $188 million a year in the next biennium; the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center $175 million in fiscal year 2010 and $179 million the following year; while West Texas A&M University will get $40 million in each of the next two fiscal years.

Texas Tech is getting $188 million a year in the next biennium and West Texas A&M University will get $40 million in each of the next two fiscal years according to the budget approved by the Texas House of Representatives.

The new labor and delivery wing at Beaumont Army Medical Center won't handle high-risk pregnancies, but El Paso medical officials say not to worry.

Marjorie Lehman is on a course that may extend her legacy far beyond her family and friends.

Texas first lady Anita Thigpen Perry's address Saturday morning to the new health care professionals graduating from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center focused on persistence and confidence.

An animal-rights group alleges the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center's use of live cats in first responder training violates a federal law.

Kathryn Calvo holds a beaker in a lab at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy .

Ian Smith 757-622-7382 Lubbock, Texas -- This morning, PETA filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture asserting that infant intubation and needle aspiration training exercises conducted on cats at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center are apparently in violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act .

Mayor Debra McCartt, left, campaigns outside Lorenzo de Zavala Middle School, greeting voters Becky Bryan and her daughter, Robin, right, as they go in to vote.

Another nursing degree option could soon be available to students in El Paso. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center officials plan to expand their nursing program to offer a bachelor of science degree in nursing in El Paso if state money comes through this month.

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock is expanding its Traditional BSN Undergraduate Program for the TTUHSC Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing to Abilene.