Synapse: April 17, 1980 Today, emergency medicine (EM) seems a solidly entrenched and respectable medical specialty. Compared to many specialties, however, it is a...
Synapse: April 5, 1965 A half century ago, UCSF played host to a several cultural events and exhibits, including an art exhibit featuring a...
Synapse: March 7, 1985 From syllabi accessed on tablets to journal articles read on laptops to medication apps viewed on smart phones, today’s medical...
Synapse: March 7, 1985 “Dentistry school discrimination case dismissed,” proclaimed the front page of Synapse 30 years ago. The accompanying article, by Charles Piller...
Synapse: February 16, 1970 A single front-page headline, reading “the tuition battle—bleed for UC,” was starkly superimposed on a full-page photograph of a well-known...
Synapse: February 8, 1990 Today, those needing a bone-marrow transplant are likely to be able to find a reasonably well-matched, nonrelated donor. This is...
Synapse: January 19, 1995 The ongoing Ebola crisis in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has been by far the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history...
Synapse: January 10, 1980 Concerns about the increasing frequency of C-sections is nothing new. Thirty-five years ago, Michael Bader reported on this trend in...
Synapse: December 7, 1964 Today, a visitor to UC Berkeley can see a campus full of people recruiting, promoting, soliciting, tabling, proselytizing and otherwise...
