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10 Things You Need to Know About Diabetes
Read more: 10 Things You Need to Know About DiabetesBy Marci Wright, diabetes educator with UT Health East Texas November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, a time to learn more about diabetes risk factors, diabetes prevention and preventing diabetes-related complications. Here are a few fast facts to get you started. For more information, visit the American Diabetes Association website, www.diabetes.org. About 37 million people…
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Olympic Center helps member maintain strength amid setbacks
Read more: Olympic Center helps member maintain strength amid setbacksDoug Delano became an Olympic Center member in July 2017 after moving to the area from Bandera, Texas. Doug decided to make the Olympic Center his health and fitness home due to the convenient location, friendly and professional staff always attentive to member needs, and the facility equipment and indoor pool. Doug had a knee…
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UT Health East Texas expands Cardiac Plaza location
Read more: UT Health East Texas expands Cardiac Plaza locationTyler, Texas (November 3, 2022) — UT Health East Texas, in partnership with Tyler Cardiovascular Consultants, has opened the newly renovated Cardiac Plaza, an almost $9 million investment that expanded the UT Health East Texas Heart and Vascular Institute to provide an Advanced Heart Failure Clinic and Atrial Fibrillation Clinic, as well as a Sleep…
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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
Read more: Mental Health and Substance Use DisordersTune in as Sonja Hampshire, a psychiatric nurse practitioner with UT Health East Texas Behavioral Health discusses Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
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Merribeth Norman
Read more: Merribeth NormanOur body is like a finely-tuned automobile. Treat it right and it can last for a very long time. But when you overload a vehicle with too much weight, the tires can wear out quickly and you face the possibility of a blowout. This extra strain also means the engine has to work harder to…
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Don & Lori Cupples
Read more: Don & Lori CupplesSometimes it is easier to do difficult things when you use the “buddy system.” For the husband and wife team of Don and Lori Cupples, losing weight and recovering from gastric bypass surgery was much easier because they did it together at the same time. The two live in Chandler and are patients of Dr.…
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Thomas Martin
Read more: Thomas MartinLosing weight and developing a healthier lifestyle is a journey many people want to take. Thomas Martin is living proof that it can be done. The 67-year-old former gas and fuel oil plant operator has retired with his wife to their more than five acres near Frankston where he raises goats. He spends his days…
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Patient enjoys the open road after bariatric surgery
Read more: Patient enjoys the open road after bariatric surgeryLosing weight and developing a healthier lifestyle is a journey many people want to take. Thomas Martin is living proof that it can be done. The 67-year-old former gas and fuel oil plant operator has retired with his wife to their more than five acres near Frankston where he raises goats. He spends his days…
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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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Employee Spotlight: Ruth Rendon, Human Resources Executive Assistant
Read more: Employee Spotlight: Ruth Rendon, Human Resources Executive AssistantIt took one person to offer Ruth Rendon a glimpse at her future, first by giving her a job and then opportunities to advance, offering support and mentorship along the way. Now Rendon is paying that forward in her position as a human resources executive assistant and certified interpreter for UT Health East Texas. That…
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