By Avery Mendoza Texas Tech dormitories last week engaged in a charitable battle royale for student blood. University Student Housing hosts the Battle of the Halls Blood Drive in collaboration with Vitalant Blood Bank, where students fight for bragging rights while saving lives. According to an article by Vitalant, blood donations have been at dangerously […]
COVID-19: Healthcare perspectives
May 19, 2021 by
By Saebree Gonzales The lives of healthcare workers across the country have changed within the passed year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In West Texas, healthcare workers have encountered numerous hardships as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has affected not only their profession, but their personal lives as well. Ashleigh Jacquez, a registered nurse at Northwest […]
Coronavirus Chronicles: healthcare personnel discuss mutual COVID-19 impact
April 30, 2020 by
By Tristini Tomlinson The COVID-19 pandemic has displaced countless lives throughout the world in one way or another. No sector has felt this more than the healthcare industry where nurses, doctors and other medical staff risking their well-being on a daily basis. Special procedures and protocol had to be enacted at the Henry Mayo Newhall […]
Weekly Poll: Would You Go to Planned Parenthood?
February 4, 2016 by
“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 […]
Life as an Emergency Nurse
October 21, 2015 by
By Karla Rodriguez Evyn Box, an emergency nurse at the University Medical Center in Lubbock, remembers the first time a case hit close to home. She watched as an Iraq veteran experiencing an active flashback was taken to a psych room. “My husband is an Iraq veteran,” Box said. “He has PTSD, so hearing this man talking—and […]
Lubbock Planned Parenthood Closed
April 29, 2014 by
Lubbock women will now have to go elsewhere to access abortion services. Both Lubbock Planned Parenthood locations, including the Women’s Health Center, have closed down as a result of a new Texas law. Generation Healthcare, a non-profit, pro-adoption group, bought out both of the Planned Parenthood facilities in Lubbock in late October in what was […]
Neugebauer: The Affordable Care Act
February 14, 2014 by
In The Hub’s fourth installment of our discussion with Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, the congressman talks about the rocky start that the Healthcare.gov website experienced at its launch. Evan Dixon asks if the Republican Party is attempting to scare Americans away from using the website to sign up for health insurance because of highly publicized […]
