Without structural change, midwifery will remain a privilege instead of a right. Reform must happen on two fronts: hospitals ...

Senate Bill 879, the Montoya Health Service Scholarship Incentive Act, was introduced by state Sen. Joseph Montoya, D-Los ...

Originally published on September 21, 1995. Among the books that have influenced my thinking are A Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. They both model the future and warn us to be vigilant about how our world ...

Treaded a path into the dark, and made you walk over the eggshells. You lit your candle of faith, believing in discipline and ...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] The experience of dying can vary greatly. Some see a light at the end of a tunnel. Others recollect all their life events.

On Thursday, July 10, Kiggundu Rodney, a Ugandan visual artist and an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at UCSF’s ...

On August 24, the Birdwatching Club (BWC) at UCSF embarked on its inaugural birding adventure at Las Gallinas Ponds in San Rafael, CA. This event marks a significant milestone for BWC, which seeks to ...

Looking for new ways to destress from studying, experiments, clinicals, or grant writing? Try the UCSF climbing club! The UCSF climbing club hosts climbing socials from 6 to 8 p.m. at Dogpatch ...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Non Fiction category.] America: a country that brags about its technology and... On Thursday, July 10, Kiggundu Rodney, a Ugandan visual artist ...

The new website is scheduled to launch on Sept. 12, 2012. The next issue of Synapse will be on the newsstands on Sept. 20. While the newspaper will continue to be published every Thursday after that ...

After years of internal debate, I finally got my first tattoo. He’s a small lizard, with a topological map design inside, scaling the outer edge of my left ankle. His fine lines and tasteful detail ...

This is part 3 of the limited series on the celebrated haute couture designer, Christian Dior. Christian Dior presented his first haute couture collection, named “Corolle,” in February 1947 at 30 ...