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Revised HIPAA Policies
HIPAA Privacy Policies HPP 1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 2.1 and 4.11 were revised on March 25, 2025.
Kids’ Health, Life Expectancy and Heart Risk Calculators
This week's topics include a comprehensive look at kid's health in the US, remaining life expectancy deficits after Covid, heart risk calculators in different ethnicities, and screening for hep C in the ED.
Training To Triumph
Texas Tech Health El Paso and The Hospitals of Providence Transmountain Campus recently celebrated the first cohort of psychiatry and family medicine residents and the second cohort of Internal Medicine residents who completed their graduate medical education – highlighting their years of intensive hands-on clinical experience.
Aphasia After Stroke, Chemotherapy Drugs, and New Hypertension Medicine
This week's topics include a novel way to help aphasia post-stroke, a new type of hypertension medicine, ED boarding in older adults, and substandard chemotherapy drugs.
Oral GLP-1 agonist, Satiety Pathways, and Stem Cell tx for T1D
This week's topics include an oral GLP-1 agonist, activating two satiety pathways, mental health in US adolescents, and stem cell tx for T1D.
Leadership Excellence
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.
Expanding Dental Access
As he approached his 65th birthday, José Ramírez of El Paso feared he had no choice but to pay for pricey dental coverage.
Screen Time, Cannabis Risks, and PET Scanning
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.
Tawney's Transformational Tenure
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 .
Survivor’s Lasting Legacy
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.
Elevating Surgical Standards
American College of Surgeons President Beth H. Sutton, M.D., FACS, paid a visit to Texas Tech Health El Paso on Thursday, May 15.
MedFuture Cohort Announced
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.
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