Part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, Postdoc Slam is a meaningful opportunity for postdocs to hone and showcase their ...

A single ring slid back and forth across its knuckles. Its arms were thin and around its neck it wore an amulet made of ...

In Wisconsin, a successful Halloween was measured by the stack of loot you took home. Stuff like Snickers or What-cha-ma-call ...

Props serve a key democratic role between the public and lawmakers, allowing voters to directly impact policymaking in the ...

On Oct. 8, dozens of UCSF students wearing scrubs, white coats, lab coats and stethoscopes, laid motionless across the ...

Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category. They walked long and sinuous paths Alone on the roads, away from the past Shoulder to lean on at the inn A hand to hold tight in ...

A 6-year-old girl rushes into an emergency room (ER) on a gurney, her chest violently heaving as her lungs beg for oxygen. Her uncontrollable wheezing indicates something more severe as she is placed ...

As I sat at my childhood home during Thanksgiving break, the dissonance between my current reality and the world I left behind becomes glaringly apparent. Gurbinder Singh, a first-generation student, ...

The refrain “In a healthy individual like you or me” is one I commonly hear as a medical student from residents and attendings on the wards. Yet the underlying assumption is false — physicians and ...

Originally published in Synapse on October 14, 1993. Greg Hayner, PharmD (UCSF class of ‘77), has been working at the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic Detox Center for 14 years — 10 as chief ...