[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Set in ancient Polynesia, the daughter of a village...

Researchers at ZSFG are testing how machine learning can help clinicians understand risk and make predictions about cardiac care. When...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 7, 1974.] Dr. Harold Lindner, professor of clinical anatomy at UCSF, and a member...

With the help of researchers at UCSF, San Francisco has transformed HIV research into lifesaving public health interventions. Yet those...

Click, clack. The freshly mopped tile floor is rather noisy. “ Right, it’s still room 501.” I think to myself...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Every evening on the medicine service, patients are handed...

Policy decisions are drastically reshaping public health, and the consequences go far beyond budgets, threatening years of scientific progress and...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 25, 2012.] A hot topic in the immunology world these days is the hygiene...

I like butterflies and butterflies like salt. In the Amazon Rainforest the butterflies land on me desperate for sodium when...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 22, 1981.] Nearly a year after the conservative Heritage Foundation called for a renewed...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest's fiction category.] There was once a small Martian called K who was...

Being an OB-GYN, I imagine, is a lot like playing center midfield.

[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 23, 2008.] There is an important initiative on the November California ballot that would...

I’ve recently realized, and it’s kind of scary but I am a demographic that is necessary I am from a...