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

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

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

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...

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

[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...

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...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 20, 1974.] Wilma Scott Heide, the first nurse to be elected national president of...

a public chortle, woven and gleeful

[Originally published on March 9, 2000.] As many people in the community had anticipated, Proposition 22, which limited the definition...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 5, 1990.] We live in an exciting time. Throughout the world, walls we once...