Diabetes and obesity remain prevailing concerns across Solano County, with far-reaching health consequences.

On Sunday, January 21^st, attendees gathered at Lander Hall on the Touro University Campus for the Integrative Medicine Symposium, the first in-person event after three years of virtual gatherings.

There are certain things people can do right away that can provide health benefits now and for years to come.

For the first time, Touro University California (TUC) will admit international students to its College of Pharmacy (COP) program in the Fall 2024. While there have always been international students in COP, the big difference is the ability to sponsor an F-1 Student Visa for students from other countries.

The ballroom at Farragut Inn was filled with a dozen Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) projects on display as large format printouts mounted on foam-core boards. Each poster was the work of an MSN student, a research venture dedicated to improving health care practices through a wide range of ideas.

Most medical school educations include the biochemistry of nutrients and what their deficiencies might look like, but rarely how that translates into the foods people eat, according to a recent TIME article. If a patient with a chronic condition needed to address issues with their diets and eating habits, few physicians have the training to provide specific guidelines or recommendations for what to eat.

Over 200 years ago, Dr. Florence Nightingale believed that a patient’s health could only be better when care delivery was focused on the whole person, including the heart, the mind, and the surrounding environment. Nightingale led nursing as a service devoted to the wellness of humanity regardless of status, location, or ability. She acknowledged health care was a right of all humans and nurses were at the heart. Nightingale called for the nursing profession to uphold the highest standards of care and safety, through science and empathy.

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.