[Originally published in Synapse, Volume 27, Number 6, 14 October 1982] Medical students at UCSF who failed part I of...

Next time you’re on a hike in a Redwood forest, running along Ocean Beach simply packed into a Muni car...

Scientists are making discoveries that give hope to global improvements in healthy pregnancies. The immune system is naturally primed to...

“This past summer, my classmate, Tammy McCall, and I had the exciting opportunity to complete our health policy internship in...

The UC Board of Regents renewed five-year contracts for two highly controversial nuclear weapons laboratories on Sept. 18, 1987. The...

For years we have known that spaceflight causes immune dysfunction, weakening the human body’s ability to fight off even the...

“I love to escape the masses, put on a backpack and explore the mountains, or pick up and move to...

If you peer closely at a drop of pond water with a microscope, what do you think you’ll see? If...

The headlines this summer have been marred by one disturbing theme: an attack on diversity in the United States. With...

I turned on the news and my home was underwater. Drowning. I was just back in Houston for a visit...

“Being forced to resign from my 11-year gymnastics career was incredibly life changing for better and for worse. I had...

After reading Aaron Mattingly’s recently published Synapse article “Leadership or Lip Service?” about his disappointment in Executive Vice Chancellor and...

“I love running around with kids because I feel free to be the goofy person that I am. And as...

In a “Faculty-Student Meet and Greet” event hosted by UCSF’s Women in Life Sciences group, I was inspired by Carol...

Electronic monitoring and storing of health data is all of the rage right now. Many of us track the number...