In June of 1981, San Francisco saw the first cases of what eventually became known as HIV/AIDS. They were atypical...

How are you? I Inhale. And I’m quickly reminded that this was first real breath I’ve taken all day How...

fleetingly she glimpsed by --- a backyard hummingbird fluttering, feeding her hatchlings: spiny, naked little things, blind and squirmy, perilously...

Without question, Dany Laferrière’s new novel, Sur la route avec Bashō, French for “On the road with Bashō,” constitutes a...

At 12:30am on Christmas eve after ten and a half hours of public comment, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...

“Get boosted.” That was the resounding message at UCSF’s final COVID-19 town hall of 2021 on December 17. All eligible...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 10, 2008.] For many people, ringing in the New Year is synonymous with setting...

The University of California has averted a graduate student researcher strike by formally recognizing the entirety of the Student Researchers...

It is morning; it is spring. And in the dew, the mountains woo. Distantly heard, the roosters crow; and past...

A UCSF School of Nursing administrator will stand trial in February for allegedly diverting $1.5 million in tuition payments into...

There are moments where you will find No past Or present Or future. Only eternity; An instant that stretches on...

[Third place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest photography category.] One afternoon, while I was taking a walk in the...

In our latest podcast episode, pre-med student and Synapse contributor Sarah Siddiqui talks to the co-presidents of the UCSF chapter...

I am keeping a prisoner; This breath I took two weeks ago; I refuse to let it leave; It paces...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 2, 1993.] David E. Smith, MD, founder and director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics...