[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...

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...

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,