[Originally published in Synapse on November 6, 2003.] What comes to your mind when you hear the words “forensic medicine?”...

[Originally published on October 25, 2007.] Midway through my first year preceptorship, a particularly difficult patient interview taught me the...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 19, 2006.] What does the term “race” mean? Is it a social construct or...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 10, 1991.] UC Berkeley Professor Neil Gilbert’s article, “The Phantom Epidemic of Sexual Assault,”...

The culmination of weeks of political farce comes on October 7, when California voters will vote on whether to recall...

Originally published on September 27, 1973. In February, within weeks of the announcement of severe federal cutbacks in grant monies...

Originally published on September 22, 1994. This author, a graduate student who works for the Department of Otolaryngology in the...

The results are in! Our judges have awarded the 12 best submissions to the Synapse Storytelling Contest by talented UCSF...

Originally published on September 14, 1986. In a dramatic reversal of last year’s disappointing showing, the School of Medicine enrolled...