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Originally published in Synapse on 14 April 14, 2005. Dr. Robert Dean served for 12 months as an Army surgeon...

From time to time, Synapse has given itself permission to misbehave. These April Fool’s stories wink at journalistic rules, blur...

[Originally authored by E. Fuller Torrey and published in Synapse on March 31, 1969.] Machines are even making inroads into...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 14, 2013.] During my first year of pharmacy school, I attended an alternative medicine...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 15, 2007.] The healthcare facility in the San Francisco County jail looks like most...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 8, 1996.] To fast or not to fast is what Ramadan is all about...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 2010] I am writing this the day after President Obama gave his State...

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