To join the team of faculty surgeons at Texas Tech Health El Paso’s Foster School of Medicine, Tiffany M. Lasky, D.O., M.H.S., had to navigate to a starkly different landscape. She traded the misty mountains and winding roads of rural Appalachia for the vast, arid Chihuahuan Desert surrounding El Paso.

As he approached his 65th birthday, José Ramírez of El Paso feared he had no choice but to pay for pricey dental coverage.

This week's topics include using CT to help determine brain death, PET scanning for tau in Alzheimer's, screen time trajectories in US youth and mental health, and cannabis and your heart.

Andrea Tawney, Ph.D., vice president of Institutional Advancement at Texas Tech Health El Paso, will depart the university on Sept. 30, 2025, after seven years of visionary leadership and service to the institution and our Borderplex .

For Wayne Martin, Father’s Day, which falls during National Cancer Survivor Month, serves as a reminder of a decision he made three decades ago to trust his instincts and advocate for cancer screenings.

American College of Surgeons President Beth H. Sutton, M.D., FACS, paid a visit to Texas Tech Health El Paso on Thursday, May 15.

On June 9, Texas Tech Health El Paso and The University of Texas at El Paso announced the third cohort of students selected for MedFuture, an initiative that jointly admits talented high school seniors from West Texas to college and medical school in El Paso.

The moment Clarissa Sanchez of El Paso slipped on her pristine white coat, embroidered with the Hunt School of Nursing seal, her childhood dream crystallized into purpose.

A respected leader in medicine and medical education, Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso Family Physician and the Foster School of Medicine Assistant Professor Rebecca Campos, M.D., FAAFP, FAIHM, ABIHM, was recently honored at the Texas Capitol as the Texas Senate’s Doctor of the Day.

This week's topics include treating hot flashes in breast cancer survivors, a blood test for detecting colorectal cancer, exercise to improve survival after colorectal cancer treatment and CAR-T therapy for solid tumors.

Texas Tech Health El Paso has named Eric M. Rohren, M.D., Ph.D., as the new Rick and Ginger Francis Endowed Dean of the Foster School of Medicine, a school established to address our Borderplex region’s critical physician shortage.

Far West Texas students are spending more time in classrooms thanks to a telehealth program that brings specialized health care directly to school nurses’ offices.