Health

Sunday, November 21, 2021 - 10:33

This Date in UCSF History: Doc Recalls Pre-Roe v. Wade Horrors

By Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on November 21, 1996.] Before 1973, the year Roe vs. Wade guaranteed women the right to safe, therapeutic abortion in the U.S., David Grimes, MD, recalled visiting the septic unit of a Los Angeles hospital. Women seriously ill from botched illegal abortions lay in the twenty beds of the common ward. The ward was always filled to capacity.
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 10:21

This Date in UCSF History: Student AIDS Forum Connects Patients and Caregivers

By Synapse

Originally published on November 15, 1990.

Several prominent physicians who have devoted much of their working lives in recent years to the AIDS epidemic shared their insights with students at the Nov. 7 forum.

Sunday, September 26, 2021 - 11:44

This Date in UCSF History: Prepayment for Healthcare

By Synapse

Originally published on September 27, 1973. In February, within weeks of the announcement of severe federal cutbacks in grant monies and the ensuing threat of mass lay-offs of workers, the Hospital and Clinics administration instituted a

Friday, May 21, 2021 - 13:50

This Date in UCSF History: Crisis Pregnancy Centers Push Anti-Choice Ideals

By Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on May 25, 2006.] A young woman meaning to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic unwittingly entered a Crisis Pregnancy Center. She was later met by police responding to claims of a minor being forced to have an abortion against her will.
Saturday, May 1, 2021 - 11:26

This Date in UCSF History: Single Payer Q&A

By Synapse

Originally published in Synapse on May 6, 1999. Medical student David Schab answers some of the most commonly raised questions about national health insurance.

Sunday, March 28, 2021 - 10:19

Dr. Goosby: Vaccine Naysayers Will Become 'Yaysayers'

By Emily Vivian Huang

This is Part Seven of our Q&A with President Biden COVID Task Force advisor, UCSF's Dr. Eric Goosby.

Sunday, March 21, 2021 - 18:24

This Date in UCSF History: Students Aim to Improve Heath Care in Iraq

By Synapse

Originally published on March 26, 2009.

When U.S.-led coalition forces invaded Iraq in March of 2003, a social, political and economic reshuffling began for the entire Middle East.

Sunday, March 21, 2021 - 16:37

Dr. Goosby 'Not Freaked Out' About Variants

By Emily Vivian Huang

This is Part Six of our Q&A with President Biden COVID Task Force advisor, UCSF's Dr. Eric Goosby.

Sunday, April 26, 2020 - 09:08

This Date in UCSF History: Hospitals in Wartime

By Synapse

Originally published in Synapse on April 22, 1982. UCSF and other Bay Area hospitals participated in a drill of the state disaster system this week.

Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 18:20

Closing The Cut

By Hansen Deng
With one hand pressed over the gash above my left eye in an effort to provide some hemostasis, I hurriedly walked into the nearest clinic that was open on an early Sunday morning.