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The 2022-2023 academic year brought with it approval to expand Touro University California’s founding college by 37% in Fall 2024, allowing the University to graduate an additional 50 osteopathic doctors each year starting with the Class of 2029.

The FDA on March 29 approved Narcan, 4 milligram naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray, for over-the-counter, nonprescription, use. It’s the first naloxone product approved for use without a prescription.

Some academic programs graduate students into residency programs – like doctors or pharmacists.

It can seem a little bewildering for patients, at first, to interact with a healthcare clinician only to find out that the provider in question is a pharmacist.

By most every measure, the rise in unhoused populations across the state of California has reached crisis proportions.

The types of chronic conditions often associated with older Americans – sleep apnea, high blood pressure, diabetes, liver disease, high cholesterol and others – are starting to appear more and more in children.

By the time pharmacy students like (soon to be) Dr. Sarah Vreeburg reach the second semester of their final year of pharmacy school, they’ve overcome a lot of obstacles and challenges.  However, the biggest hurdle often comes near the end when Vreeburg and many others in her cohort apply to and interview with residency sites around the nation.

The Joint MSPAS/MPH program has taken steps to give current PA students as much of that experience as possible through some realistic simulations held at the end of November that were designed to help students understand the chaos inherent in the emergency department.

TUCOM Class of 2023 celebrated a successful national residency match today with students being matched to a record 19 different medical specialties including primary care, osteopathic neuromusculoskeletal medicine, emergency medicine, psychiatry, neurology, physiatry, anesthesiology, dermatology, interventional radiology, and otolaryngology.

Dr. Prabjot (Jodie) Sandhu has taken over as the head of the School of Nursing during an important period of growth and transition for this vital program.