University Medical Center News

A drunk driver fleeing the police, crashed through barricades set up for the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas killing a man, a woman and injuring 23. According to Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, 23 people were injured, five of them critically, in the incident.

Joseph Eicher, 72, of Uniontown, Ala., was pronounced dead at 1:13 a.m. Monday by Dr. Steven Brooks at University Medical Center in Lubbock, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety news release.

Stuntman Big Ed Beckley is recovering at University Medical Center in Lubbock after a motorcycle wreck over the weekend in Hobbs, N.M. Beckley came up short while trying to jump over nine cars.

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One person was transported to University Medical Center in unknown condition, while another was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, also in unknown condition, Metro spokeswoman Laura Meltzer said.

A pedestrian was stuck by a motor vehicle. The pedestrian was taken by private vehicle to University Medical Center.

The state low-balled the DEO Company when it paid the owners $230,000 for land it acquired to clear way for what will be the new University Medical Center off Tulane Avenue, an Orleans Parish jury has found.

In 2010, 14,582 Tennesseans died from heart disease, making Tennessee's heart disease rate the seventh highest rate in the country.

Las Cruces Police responded to a shooting at Chucky's Food Mart, 5995 Bataan Memorial West, on Tuesday night.

Former El Paso Mayor John Cook said the decision by University Medical Center to privatize its anesthesia services will have a disastrous effect on the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-Paul L. Foster School of Medicine.

Fire and Rescue personnel load the driver into the ambulance to be transported to University Medical Center.

University Medical Center, El Paso County's publicly funded hospital, was soundly criticized for recently awarding its $11.2 million anesthesia services contract to a private firm in New York and not renewing the anesthesia contract with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.