The 2024 Synapse Storytelling Contest submissions surpassed all expectations — from gorgeous landscape photography to heartrending personal essays, from campy...

[Originally published in Synapse on Sept. 14, 1989.] Friday evening Sept. 8 was opening night at the San Francisco Opera...

WCNSF — Would you be able to guess what this medical acronym stands for? As healthcare profession trainees, weencounter hundreds...

Okay, here I am. I’m at my desk. Just me and my trusty little laptop. Posture is good, lighting is...

How does your brain interpret different sounds as distinct words, instead of a singular mess of phonetics? This was the...

After years of internal debate, I finally got my first tattoo. He’s a small lizard, with a topological map design...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 28, 1999.] Five months ago, the Alliance of Middle Eastern Scientists and Physicians was...

Even the most callous version of me is not entirely comfortable with using the word “hate” in a mundane setting...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 23, 2013.] Student health insurance premiums will increase $565, or 20.4 percent, next year...

Last February, UCSF students received emails about their health coverage that left them stunned, and raised more questions than answers.

It took mere hours for UCSF police to shut down a protest and tent encampment on Monday that was set...

When the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa refused to heed the call from the international community to end its...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 15, 1986.] During the past few months, revelations of illegal or improper releases of...

The social determinants of health are the underlying factors that influence our health outside of the doctor’s office, including the...