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

What do you say to the fatherless ones on Fathers Day? Do you look them in their long-lost eyes and...

[Originally authored by Dr. Amy Levine — Director of UCSF’s Center for Gender Equity — and published in Synapse on...

Padma Thapa, a 65-year-old woman living in Nepal, was given a second chance at life in 2018 after receiving surgery...

I’m albino. My eyes are … different. In many ways, the world is not built for me. Every time I...

This is not tax advice. I am by no means a tax guru. Please don’t misconstrue this as helpful.

[Originally authored by Dr. Philip R. Lee — a UCSF professor of social medicine and director of the Institute for...

Elections for the Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA) happen from April 15-29. However, at the start of writing this...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 15, 2010.] April 15 is Tax Day. For most UCSF students, this has less...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 5, 2012.] Over 200 students and community members flocked to a two-day UCSF LGBTQI...

This is a sick note. A sick note for a nation that is perpetually tired. Tired because we have been...

The sickly sweet aroma of the elderly wafts upwards as I walk through the hallways. She sits on her bed...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 22, 2007.] Recent data suggests that latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii, commonly thought to...

In the war-torn town of Gaza, Palestine, where the echoes of desperate pleas for a ceasefire reverberate through the rubble-filled...

I have never taken a class about the polycrisis, and in fact only recently learned what it is. The polycrisis...