Keep Your Two Wheels Turning

By Laura Duclos Texas Tech is one of the largest universities in the state of Texas. With only 10 minutes to move from one class to the next, how are students with back-to-back classes supposed to get around quickly? Most students commute from home to class or take the bus, but in recent years TTU […]

Freestanding ERs: What to Know Before You Go

On a normal night just outside the southern city limit of Lubbock, a father had a situation on his hands. His rambunctious and fearless young daughter, Ava, just broke her leg and he had a decision to make. Far away from the Lubbock medical district, he had to decide where to take 4-year-old Ava so her leg would be […]

Lubbock Health Community: ‘Sex Ed Wanted’

By Kristen Barton, Amanda Castro-Crist and Lilly Quiroz Since the number of syphilis cases in Lubbock County tripled in the first four months of 2016 compared to 2015, the State Health Department issued an outbreak alert and the Lubbock Board of Health created a committee in May to address the issue of STDs. The alert was issued in […]

The Inner Battle: Dance Your Anxiety Away

By Natalie Morales Everyone feels anxiety every now and then. You can get anxious before a hard exam, anxious from juggling multiple tasks as a college student, anxious about post-graduate life, or for dancers, anxious about performing in front of a crowd. Being diagnosed with clinical anxiety is much different, though. It can cause a person […]

Tech Moo-ving Forward with Vet School

By Callie Yardley Plans to open a veterinarian school at the Amarillo branch of the Texas Tech University Health Science Center have become more concrete with the announcement of  a target completion date: 2019. Guy Loneragan, a professor of food safety and public health and a veterinarian, said veterinarians have been an integral part of Texas […]

Working For Your Wellbeing

By Maddy McCarty and Breann Robinson Brittney Robinson, a sophomore chemistry major from Wheeler, Texas, recalls being so sick one day she could barely stand up by herself. “I called the wellness center on campus, and they said they couldn’t get me in for another week,” Robinson said. “I told the operator that I was […]

Weekly Poll: Student Wellness Center

Students at Texas Tech pay a $75 medical services fee each semester. This entitles them to discounted medical assistance through Student Health Services, depending on their insurance status. But are students actually utilizing the Student Wellness Center? Walk-ins and appointments are welcome, but students have complained of long wait times, with reports of it sometimes […]

Hungry in Grad School: You Are Not Alone

With teaching, research and personal obligations, graduate school can be among the most stressful times in a person’s life. One of the first corners to get cut during this harried and low-income period is students’ health. “Sometimes in the graduate life, they have to put their health on hold, and food is one of those […]

Weekly Poll: Would You Go to Planned Parenthood?

“Planned Parenthood Lubbock” is one of the most common search terms that lead people to The Hub@TTU, sending visitors to an article about two local Planned Parenthood locations that closed in 2013. The Planned Parenthood locations in Lubbock offered STI/STD testing and treatment, cancer and preventative screenings, contraception and abortions. When Generation Healthcare acquired Planned Parenthood […]

The Media and Male Body Image

By Allyson Padron Media missions such as Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty and Aerie’s Real Campaign feature unretouched pictures of female models, encouraging women to love their body, no matter what it looks like. But what is the media doing to support positive male body image? The National Eating Disorder Association suggests 10 million men in the U.S. […]