This week's topics include taxi driving and risk for Alzheimer's, fairy tales and sleep, manual dexterity in hospital workers, and AI and cognitive impairment.

Transforming Smiles, Transforming Lives: Free Dental Care Empowers Opportunity Center Residents at Hopeful Smiles Event

OB-GYN Department Offers Programs for Uninsured or Underinsured Texas Residents

Marathon Petroleum and Texas Tech Health El Paso joined forces again on Friday, Nov. 15, to celebrate Neighborhood Smiles Day and continue their shared commitment to improving oral health for underserved families.

As fall arrives in our Borderplex, Texas Tech Health El Paso is welcoming this season of gratitude by celebrating those who make a difference for our future health care heroes.

$30,000 grant from National Breast Cancer Foundation will provide free screenings to women in the colonia of Sparks

Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso Welcomes Neurologist Luis D. Acosta, M.D. 

Hunt School of Dental Medicine students organized and provided complimentary screenings and cleanings to members of the gold-medal-winning El Paso 915 Stars and their Special Olympics soccer team on Sept. 24.

A monthly list of new providers hired at Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso.

Gastroenterologist Alejandro Robles, M.D., an El Paso native, aims to improve health disparities through research and community engagement

Gastroparesis patient Patrick Ellis’s quality of life transformed, thanks to a treatment developed by TTUHSC El Paso gastroenterologists Irene Sarosiek, M.D., and Richard McCallum, M.D.

Mir Faeq Quadri, Ph.D., M.S., B.D.S., FRSPH, FICD, a dental education professional with extensive research experience from around the globe, has joined the Hunt School of Dental Medicine as an assistant professor.

El Pasoans had two big reasons to celebrate Neighborhood Smiles Day on Friday, Nov. 17. First, Marathon Petroleum announced a generous $50,000 gift in support of the Texas Tech Dental Oral Health Clinic. Second, 120 children received free dental exams as part of the special day.

The Texas Tech Dental Oral Health Clinic will offer free dental screenings and cleanings for older adults, residents of the 79901 and 79905 ZIP codes, and college students by appointment with a valid ID.

The NBCF awarded a $10,000 grant for breast cancer screenings administered by the Medical Student Run Clinic and its Mobile Care Unit.

The new initiative looks to improve health care access across our Borderplex by helping prevent diabetes and empowering screened residents with appropriate resources.

Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso orthopaedic specialists treat a wide range of conditions, from accidents to aching backs.

The Hunt School of Dental Medicine and El Paso District Dental Society hosted its inaugural Give Kids a Smile® event at the Texas Tech Dental Oral Health Clinic.

The large influx of migrants and asylum seekers crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the El Paso area has also resulted in a spike of medical emergencies.

Affordable dentures offered at the Texas Tech Dental Oral Health Clinic.

Dr. Ana Karina Mascarenhas is featured in a Healthline article about the link between Alzheimer’s and gum disease.

UTEP and TTUHSC El Paso will expand research into health conditions affecting Hispanics with support from two Texas educators.

If you have lost an adolescent to adult child within the past two years, and you, the parent, are 60 years of age or younger, TTUHSC El Paso researchers would like to talk with you.

Researchers will investigate immunotherapy for an aggressive breast cancer affecting Hispanic women and the use of natural chemicals to fight pancreatic cancer.

TTUHSC El Paso has received more than $250,000 to study proteins that contribute to disease progression and drug resistance in leukemia.

The Hunt School of Dental Medicine would like to encourage participation in an anonymous survey of Hispanic women regarding at-home cancer tests.

The Department of Neurology is expanding telemedicine services and community education in rural West Texas thanks to a Permian Basin Area Foundation grant.

Nursing students and alumni continue meeting needs as COVID-19 variant surges.

The Department of Psychiatry’s addiction clinic is the only of its kind in El Paso County.

Laxman Gangwani, Ph.D., will study genetic mutations associated with life-threatening neurodegenerative disorders.