Texas Tech Health Check
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center experts in health care will share advice and reminders to help us stay healthy—mentally and physically.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 181
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Urology: Sharma
We’re celebrating men’s health in June and focusing on urology in this episode. Our guest is Texas Tech Physicians urologist Pranav Sharma. Dr. Sharma goes over some common urology prob…
Skin Cancer: Tarbox
How can your protect yourself or loved ones from skin cancer? Michelle Tarbox, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians dermatologist, who spoke to us before about protecting our skin during the win…
Research: McMahon
TTUHSC President Dr. Lori Rice-Spearman recently announced that the university received the Carnegie Classification of a Very High Research Activity University among special focus four-…
Stop the Bleed: Bankhead
Did you know that someone who is severely bleeding could bleed to death in as little as 5 minutes? Do you have the skills necessary to stop the bleed in case of an emergency? This episo…
Women's Health: Prabhu and Farooqi
It’s National Women’s Health Week but we think that women’s health should be a priority every week. And to coincide with the occasion, The Free Clinic is hosting the Women’s Health Day …
Willed Body Program: Gilbert and Jones
Have you considered what happens to your body after you die? There are several options available, including donating our whole body for medical training. To explain the Willed Body Prog…
Lupus: Sutton
Lupus is a long-term autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation and pain in any part of someone’s body. Those with lupus see their immune system attack healthy tissue.
For this episo…
Child Abuse Prevention: Patterson
April is Child Abuse Prevention month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 1 in 7 children have experienced child abuse or neglect in the past year in …
Aphasia: Corwin
Aphasia is a condition many of us have only recently heard about. Melinda Corwin, Ph.D., is a professor in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Department of Speech, Langua…
Reflection on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Test and Islam
It's been a little over two years since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared. To mark the occasion, Texas Tech Physicians pulmonologists, Dr. Victor Test, and Dr. Ebtesam Islam, describe …
Match Day: Berk
Match Day is a nerve-wracking event that has played out on medical school campuses across the country since 1952. What is Match Day? It's the day fourth-year students open their envelo…
Brain Injury Awareness Month - Norbury
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. According to the Brain Injury Association of America, every nine seconds, someone in the U.S. sustains a brain injury. One in every 60 Americans l…
LGBTQ+ Health Care: Bennett
The number of US adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has increased—double the percentage from 2012, according to a new poll released by Gallup.
What this means for their health care is the top…
Relationships: Korinek
We’re ending American Heart Month with a look another look at the heart, specifically learning to deal with heartache. Giving us insight and advice on how to deal with conflict with our…
COVID-19 Testing: Rice-Spearman and Redman
We handed this episode on COVID-19 testing to the experts. TTUHSC President Dr. Lori Rice-Spearman asked current chair of the department of laboratory sciences and primary care Dr. Wade…
COVID-19 Update: D'Agostino
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Provost and Dr. Darrin D'Agostino answers our questions related to COVID-19, how to keep from getting sick, who is most vulnerable to the il…
Heart Health: Shurmur
February is American Hearth Month and Texas Tech Physicians cardiologist Dr. Scott Shurmur is our guest for this episode. He’s here to talk to us about what the heart does, heart diseas…
Cervical Health Awareness: Hosford
January is cervical health awareness month and we’re encouraging women to get screened for cervical cancer. Screening rates have declined during the pandemic even though routine screeni…
PTSD: Wakefield
PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder can affect anyone at any age and anyone who has experienced a shocking, scary or dangerous event. Here to talk to us about how it affects us, how …
Yearly physicals: Babb
If you plan to start the year on a health kick, you might consider scheduling an annual physical. Frank Babb, M.D., Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine asso…