Consider aging as three overlapping progressions: the accumulation of risk, aging as deterioration, and aging as renewal. Aging disrupts life/non-life...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 26, 1988.] Case: A 29 year-old Salvadoran woman, mother of three, is unable to...

When the waiting caught on fire the world rages Agitation No amount is the right amount

Imagine you or a loved one missing school every month simply because they didn't have access to menstrual hygiene products...

During my years as a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), I never stopped to think about...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 21, 1998.] Waking up to the annoying alarm I've used for the last four...

Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. More than 55 million people worldwide are currently living with dementia...

April 18-20, 2025, Big Sur San Simeon backpacking. I brought Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur with me to the trip, but...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 7, 1981.] In calling for a national day of protest against the arms race...

Synapse — UCSF Student Voices, UCSF’s 70-year-old student news outlet, is seeking an editor-in-chief or two co-editors-in-chief who would share...

The environment one lives in directly impacts one’s health — common sense tells us this. If someone knowingly harms another’s...

How do you say goodbye to a place with countless memories carved on its every corner. Those were the simple...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 1, 1976.] This coming week is the celebration of Cinco de Mayo and La...

What’s lost in the translation from writer to physician? My life as an undergraduate was very different — as a...