In the middle of the crowded highways Looking at the busy fast vehicles I think Nobody seems to care for...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 5, 1987.] As intravenous drug use receives more attention as a factor in the...

Originally a method through which European colonizers exerted power over the colonized, the field of global health has taken different...

[Originally published on March 1, 2012.] Anyone following the GOP Presidential primaries would agree that the story line thus far...

What does the Barbie World and immune cells have in common? Plenty if you ask this year’s organizers of the...

Countless women are often told the pain will be “just a pinch” on the day of their Inter-Uterine Device (IUD)...

His opulent flame burns with an optimistic flow, spurs pirouetting memories in a room that’s dim;

[Originally published in Synapse on Jan. 20, 1994.] In a Jan. 12 talk at UCSF, Peter Buxton described his efforts...

It is that time of the year again. The holidays are done. Everyone is returned from visiting family and friends.

Why is the Western scientist always clothed? What would happen if science was conducted, metaphorically, in the nude? Thinking through...

my roses are yellow, as yellow as the hair of the mermaiden,

[Originally published in Synapse on January 19, 1978.] Do mental patients check their constitutional rights at the hospital door? Do...

With five minutes left for the clock to strike 12, I was standing on the roof of my building looking...

Lately I've been relating life to dentistry and I don't find much difference between the two.

[Originally published in Synapse on January 4, 1996.] The bomb scare that welcomed many UCSF students back to class Tuesday...