medical

Let's get the cliché out of the way, right away: truly everything is bigger in Texas. Including innovations in plastic surgery.

Going to the doctor and getting screened is an important step in staying healthy as we get older. Unfortunately, many people last year stayed away from hospitals and doctor offices. There are also many adults who just don't feel like getting check ups...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, one of the older urgent care facilities in Lubbock closed its doors.

Lili is an energetic young lady who has had something happen that no child should ever have to go through.

Faith is a brave 11-year-old Lubbock girl who is battling a disorder known as Gastroparesis.

Prescription nose spray Fluticasone Propionate is being recalled by Apotex Corp because it could contain glass.

We really sympathize with those who get a nasty splinter and just can't get it out.

UMC has placed pinwheels in their courtyard garden in support of National Child Abuse Awareness Month.

We have another important recall story if you or someone you know uses an EpiPen.

Northwest Lubbock had a new option for healthcare thanks to Covenant Medical.

An unidentified girl in South America will undergo an amputation after a snake bite caused her leg to shrivel and turn black.

You ever dig at a splinter? How about pull a nail too far down? Maybe you dug at some other little tiny weirdness on yourself? I would think that those things, while being a little gross, are still a little understandable. I would think that you would quit digging once you got down to a certain level. More after the jump.