Creativity, curiosity and extraordinary storytelling are on full display in the winners of the eighth annual Synapse Storytelling Contest, with...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 25, 1989.] The eyes of medical professionals and legislators throughout the nation will be...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 11, 1978.] Immortality, Mankind’s oldest dream, that of conquering death itself to secure a...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 12, 1981.] In calling for a national day of protest against the arms race...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 6, 1982.] In celebrating the 120th anniversary of the battle at Puebla, it is...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 25, 2013.] I first heard of couch-surfing two summers ago. It was advertised as...

Originally published in Synapse on April 21, 1980. On March 18th this year UC went to a routine budget hearing...

Originally published in Synapse on 14 April 14, 2005. Dr. Robert Dean served for 12 months as an Army surgeon...

From time to time, Synapse has given itself permission to misbehave. These April Fool’s stories wink at journalistic rules, blur...

[Originally authored by E. Fuller Torrey and published in Synapse on March 31, 1969.] Machines are even making inroads into...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 14, 2013.] During my first year of pharmacy school, I attended an alternative medicine...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 15, 2007.] The healthcare facility in the San Francisco County jail looks like most...

As a medical student, faculty frequently remind me that I am in a unique position. Medical students are unhindered by...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 8, 1996.] To fast or not to fast is what Ramadan is all about...

For more than a century, the operating room has quietly recorded not only what surgical culture values, but also how...