Karin McCay
Anchor, Health Reporter
Lubbock, TX
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Karin is a Texas Tech graduate who has been co-anchoring the 6 and 10 p.m. news with Abner Euresti since 1980. The two have paired up to host the Children's Miracle Network Telethon since 1984 and, with your help, have raised more than $17 million for the Children's Hospital at UMC. Karin is the most recognized health reporter on the South Plains. She is a 17-time Anson Jones Award winner, selected by the Texas Medical Association. She has won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award four times and earned an Emmy for her documentary on the first South Plains Honor Flight. You can see Karin's contribution to the news on every newscast: health content in Daybreak Today, HealthWise @ 5, and the award-winning HealthWise at 10. Karin is married to Lubbock County Commissioner Bill McCay. They have two children. Jacob and his wife, McKenzie, live in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a certified loan officer and she is in law school. Morgan was a realtor in Lubbock but now lives in Cologne, Germany, with her husband Daniel Olivier, an Agronomist for Bayer Crop Science. Karin is also called "Kiki", especially by her grandchildren Retief and Leizyl. Karin has published a series of children's books called Magic Mommy Stories. Each book began as a gift to her grandchildren, a story in a notebook mailed to them in Germany. Today, Retief keeps all the colorful notebooks on a shelf in his room, each an adventure in the Magic Mommy series. (Click here) to e-mail Karin.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2023 at 11:06 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
It was in 1978 that the National Hospice Organization was established. Its first national conference was held in Washington D.C. Jimmy Carter was President when the hospice movement took off and became a national discussion.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 10:56 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
The ball caps say donate life. The smiles say “let’s make a difference.” Newschannel 11 was there to watch a quick photo as a small group gathered outside University Medical Center today.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 10:57 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
An idea to help strangers handle grief is bringing tears of joy to many all over the world.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 10:34 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
Dr. Rahman is using a new technique to find and remove the lump with less discomfort to the patient. With this, it means no more inserting a wire to mark the cancer before the surgery.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 5:49 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
Every year since 2008, these students have been volunteering a day out of their studies in the spring to clean up, repair, or do any odd job you don’t want to do, or maybe can’t do anymore.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 10:39 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
“When a family exercises and plays together, they’re going to have a whole lot more time where they feel like they can interact in other meaningful ways about other things that are very important.”
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 9:15 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
Banana Boat is expanding its recall to include four batches of its hair and scalp sunscreen spray due to trace levels of benzene.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 11:27 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
Dr Tetyana Vasylyeva is leading the study at the Texas Tech University Health Science Center to hopefully find a better way to reduce the likelihood of medical errors.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 11:17 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
If you bought a Celsius beverage or mix anytime between January of 2015 to November 23rd of 2022, you may get some money.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 11:02 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
An AED (Automated External Defibrillator) is a portable medical device that can jump-start the heart in an emergency, keeping someone alive until paramedics arrive.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 10:56 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
Lubbock doctor Sharmila Dissanaike has been named the national President of the American Burn Association. She will become President-Elect in May and then take over the role as President in 2025.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 10:43 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
The football world is still reeling over the collapse of a Buffalo Bills player in Monday night’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 10:31 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
Whether your family gathering will be large or small over the holidays, Dr. John Griswold, trauma surgeon and Texas Tech Physician, says two words could save a life or prevent a lifelong injury: slow down.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 11:02 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
Dr. Michelle Tarbox, a Dermatologist and Texas Tech Physician, says stress, in general, can take its toll on hair, but if hair loss is severe, don’t assume it’s just fate.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 12:28 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
In Texas, we tend to worry more about heat-related illnesses, but nationally, more people die from the cold.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 11:10 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
Earlier we told you that former Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach donated his organs after a fatal heart attack on Sunday. That was not just a decision by the family. Mike Leach made it known long ago that he was a big supporter of organ donation.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 10:45 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
It was nearly 4 years ago that Lucrisha McCutcheon was treated for walking pneumonia. When that infection turned into sepsis, her organs began to fail and blood was not circulating to her extremities. After the Lubbock woman fell into a coma, doctors were forced to amputate both hands and feet to save her life.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 11:04 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
The lottery is just a game to some people. Others may even give tickets away in birthday cards or Christmas presents. So, when does the fun turn into a potential problem?
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 10:38 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
It is estimated that more than 6 million people in this country are living with Alzheimer’s Disease and that number is expected to climb to 13 million by 2050. November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2022 at 10:37 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
The West Texas ALS Support Group is hosting two fundraisers to help raise money for people in the area who are diagnosed with ALS
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 11:15 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Now that we are a couple months into the school year, this is a perfect time to do a well check on your own kids, not physically, but mentally.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 10:42 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Dr. Glenn Boris was intent on helping people, even when his own health was ailing.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 10:55 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
It’s time again to wear jeans for a Children’s Miracle Network fundraiser, but we’re not calling this ‘Miracle Jeans Day’ anymore.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 10:33 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Mental Health America provides an online depression screening in English and in Spanish that is easy to take in the privacy of your own home.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 10:51 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Every year in this country, as many as 160,000 people learn they have colorectal cancer, and about 50,000 deaths every year are blamed on that kind of cancer.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 10:59 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
If you or someone you know is suffering from grief, Dr. Alan Wolfelt is coming to Lubbock next week to provide a free 2-day seminar. He has written more than 75 books on grief and healing and owns the Center for Loss out of Denver, Colorado.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 11:01 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Today, Richard Engel announced that his 6-year-old son, Henry, has died after a long struggle with Rett's Syndrome.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 5:41 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
With school starting next week, a lot of kids may be staying up late to celebrate these last few days of summer. However, a Lubbock pediatrician says it would be more helpful if parents would begin setting the alarm to get kids ready for that early wake up call.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2022 at 10:58 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Jean Hoover is well into her 80s and we think she may have discovered the secret to staying young... but it may not be what you think.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 9:33 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Thanks to the generosity of the Scottish Rite Masons, hundreds of students with dyslexia have benefitted from free help in reading, handwriting and spelling.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 10:46 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
We’ve all seen the commercials about women in a rush for the restroom because of an overactive bladder. Did you know that a lot of men have their eye on the bathroom, too? But for a different reason, an enlarged prostate.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2022 at 9:23 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
You don’t have to wait for an annual exam or a free screening to check for skin cancer.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 9:22 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Every year, thousands of people are rushed to emergency rooms after trying to stage their own fireworks show.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 10:35 AM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Exciting news for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center — its School of Nursing is now ranked the best in Texas and the Southwest region.
Updated: May. 24, 2022 at 11:59 AM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Texas Tech’s Health Sciences Center celebrated its newest physicians. They graduated on Monday from the School of Medicine.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 8:39 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
May 19 is National Stop the Bleed day. Dr. Brittany Bankhead, a trauma surgeon and Texas Tech Physician, says “With or without medical training, if you have this Stop the Bleed training, you have the ability to stop a bleed.”
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 11:10 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
This free clinic is dedicated entirely to women who are in need of medical screening without the insurance to get it.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 9:26 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
A Medication Cleanout is a chance to clean out your medicine cabinet to keep drugs off the streets and out of our water supply.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2022 at 11:37 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
April is Autism Awareness month, a good time to focus on a great resource at Texas Tech.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2022 at 9:57 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
It disappeared for a while during COVID, but Administrative Professionals Day is back at Texas Roadhouse on April 27.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2022 at 9:08 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
The March for Babies is three weeks away. This year’s goal is $225,000, which will go toward special programs and other efforts to ensure that all moms and babies are healthy.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 10:51 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
With extreme winds and blowing dust today, are you feeling less than your best tonight?
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 9:29 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
The search is on for the newest Gerber baby. But this year’s contest is more important than ever, healthwise. Until Thursday, April 14th, Gerber is taking your nominations. All you do is submit a photo or video of your cute little smiling baby.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2022 at 12:11 AM CDT
|By Karin McCay
It made headlines last week when the family of Bruce Willis announced he was leaving his acting career because of a diagnosis of Aphasia, a condition in the brain which affects speech and language.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2022 at 4:51 PM CDT
|By Karin McCay
Will’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, has Alopecia, a condition we featured 5 years ago at Ropes High School, where Maggie Anderson, a freshman now at Texas Tech, was bringing attention to the disease.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 9:17 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
Lubbock has lost a pediatrician described as legendary.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 3:59 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
The 333 campaign is now underway, an effort to encourage people to make a donation of 3 dollars or 33 dollars or any sequence of threes to help kids with brain injuries.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 9:33 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
You may think you feel fine, but the CDC estimates more than 16 million Americans over age 20 are living with coronary heart disease. Dr. Scott Shurmur is a Cardiologist and Texas Tech Physician.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 9:48 AM CST
|By Karin McCay
Tuesday was a big day on the planet. You could even buy a t-shirt to celebrate Twosday, since the date for Tuesday was 2-22-22.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 5:48 PM CST
|By Karin McCay
Dr. Wade Redman is Chairman of the Department of Lab Sciences at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. He says the first thing you should do before using this test is read the directions and look at the diagrams carefully.
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