[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...

One day there’ll be a reactor meltdown. The seas will swelter in a vicious response

[Originally published on February 22, 1996.] Chinese New Year is a misnomer. The arrival of the same new year is...

It was a rainy and blustery Tuesday morning. Clutching a white, large-canopied umbrella, with rainwater splashing around my footsteps, I...

Artificial Intelligence. Telemedicine. Digital Therapeutics. Virtual Reality. Bioprinting. These are all buzzwords now within the field of medicine and health...

[Originally authored by pharmacy student Gina Jones and published in Synapse on February 18, 1993.] “History is a people’s memory...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 1977.] Inmates of California’s prison system are currently being used as subjects for...