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UT Health East Texas EMS Expands Access to Lifesaving Whole Blood in the Field
Read more: UT Health East Texas EMS Expands Access to Lifesaving Whole Blood in the FieldTyler, Texas (August 19, 2026) — UT Health East Texas EMS has expanded its prehospital blood program by equipping supervisor vehicles with new blood coolers, increasing the availability of whole blood for patients experiencing life-threatening medical emergencies and traumatic injuries. The addition of the blood coolers allows specially trained EMS personnel to transport and administer…
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Leaving a legacy: Teresa Pace on 23 years of service
Read more: Leaving a legacy: Teresa Pace on 23 years of serviceTeresa Pace, RN, became a nurse late in life, at an age when some are beginning to slow down. The wife and mother of three lost her husband, a minister, when he was 40 years old. Suddenly the sole caretaker of her kids, she faced a decision about her future. “I remember my youngest looking…
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Patient thankful for care team who saved his fingers after woodworking accident
Read more: Patient thankful for care team who saved his fingers after woodworking accidentWhen Dayton “Junior” Pierce stopped by the UT Health Carthage emergency department to thank his care team, he was able to give them a wave goodbye when he left. That small gesture is something his care team celebrated, especially since when they first met Pierce he was missing his fingers, the result of a woodworking…
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Do you hear ringing, buzzing, clicking or whooshing sounds in your ears? If so, you are not alone.
Read more: Do you hear ringing, buzzing, clicking or whooshing sounds in your ears? If so, you are not alone.We’ve asked Dr. Katherine Bowman, AuD, audiologist at the UT Health East Texas ENT Center on Three Lakes Parkway in Tyler, to answer some of the more common questions about tinnitus. What is tinnitus? Approximately 25 million American adults will experience tinnitus (the name for that ringing/buzzing sound) in any given year. Tinnitus can be…
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UT Athens surgical nurse says having breast cancer led her to current practice
Read more: UT Athens surgical nurse says having breast cancer led her to current practiceBy Avery Niles Published:& Oct. 16, 2023 at 12:46 PM CDT ATHENS, Texas (KLTV) – Roughly one out of eight women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in the course of their life. Melisa Collum was working at the UT Health Athens hospital as a registered nurse when she felt a lump in…
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Prostate Cancer Awareness Reaches Beyond September
Read more: Prostate Cancer Awareness Reaches Beyond SeptemberBy G. Todd Hill, CEO UT Health East Texas Physicians The recognition last month of Prostate Cancer Month got me thinking about my own exposure to prostate cancer through watching three generations on my father’s side deal with it. The second and third generation (my grandfather and my father and uncles) received early diagnosis and…
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Newfound Commitment to Healthy Living Proves to be Life-changing
Read more: Newfound Commitment to Healthy Living Proves to be Life-changingWhen Mike Stephens was diagnosed with diabetes, his physician, Dr. Christine Powell, told him he needed to make some serious lifestyle changes. As a way to hopefully get Mike started down the right path, Dr. Powell referred him to the UT Health East Texas Olympic Center’s Exercise is Medicine program. After his initial two-week free…
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Double amputee empowered to inspire and care for others
Read more: Double amputee empowered to inspire and care for othersThe future looked bright for Cody Westbrook, 32, from Garrison, Texas. He was about to start a new job at Lockheed Martin. He had also picked out a new puppy; an English bulldog/pitbull mix he named Capone. But on a rainy night in May 2021, everything changed. Cody and Capone were driving through Rusk County…
