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Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - 11:54

This Date in UCSF History: Nuclear Plants a Health Menace?

Originally published in Synapse on January 11, 1980. Anti-nuclear activists Dr. Helen Caldicott and Dr. John Goffman are “biased” charged UCSF radiology professor Dr. Harvey M. Patt. Caldicott and Goffman, said Patt, have become “emotionally involved” in the nuclear power issue and have thus sacrificed their scientific objectivity.

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 19:05

This Date in UCSF History: Malpractice Insurance Slows Healthcare

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Friday, December 13, 2019 - 10:59

This Date in UCSF History: Medical Heroin?

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Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 1, 1977. Advocates of decriminalizing heroin received a powerful shot in the arm from the White House this month when President Carter authorized a federal panel to oversee research into the medicinal uses of heroin and marijuana.

Friday, December 6, 2019 - 12:09

This Date in UCSF History: Ending Violence Against Women

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Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 8, 2003. Why is the greatest insult one can hurl at a boy is “you throw like a girl?” Former professional athlete Don McPherson came to UCSF as part of the Student Enrichment Series on November 18 to address that and other questions relating to men and male violence against women.

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Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 14:15

This Date in UCSF History: Defending the Right to Choose

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Originally published in Synapse on Nov. 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.