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It’s a new year, which means it’s time to get serious about your health if you, like many others, gave yourself a free pass on healthy eating and exercise over the holidays.

If you participated in a competitive race in the last year, you may have spotted a tent called the Sports Medicine Recovery Booth. The tent is lined with a row of treatment tables staffed by Touro University California (TUC) student doctors and members of the Sports Medicine Club.

Holiday meals may have added a few pounds to your frame, but that doesn’t mean those pounds need to remain as a potential health burden.

It’s hard to miss the bright orange tablecloth of the Harm Reduction program when walking into the Student Run Free Clinic (SRFC). 

Before 2022, the only people interested in diabetes medications were patients with the condition, endocrinologists, or diabetologists. When news that Ozempic, a relatively new drug in the U.S., was helpful for weight loss, all that changed.

Regular physical activity is one of the most important things you can do for your health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. But it can be tough during the winter months to remain active.

The Touro Rising Educator Experience (TREE) program at Touro University California's Graduate School of Education is a transformative initiative designed to support new teachers through structured mentorship. The program recently promoted its first set of teachers, and it has prepared them to excel in their teaching careers.

A pair of registered nurses, on the cusp of receiving graduate degrees at Touro University California, are singing the praises of Travis Credit Union and NorthBay Health for providing a combined $30,000 to support them as they sought an advanced degree.

A packed house at Farragut Inn on the Touro University California campus on December 15^th was filled with community group leaders gathered to discuss strategies to deal with the opioid epidemic.

For Dr. Nicole Peña, winner of the 2023 James M. Lally National Emerging Leader Award from the American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF), the reward for all the hard work is simply helping others. As an Associate Professor and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) Department Chair at Touro University California (TUC), Peña does the work because it’s who she is. The core of being a physician for Peña is service, and it is part of the natural flow of living.