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

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 ...

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

Students! In the next week to months you will be bombarded by advice from everyone on everything from where to buy toilet paper to what profession to go into. Being a top school, most of us UCSFers ...

I look forward to honoring Synapse ’s rich history and highlighting your nuanced perspectives in my role as Synapse’s new ...

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 aid eventually arrived, it wasn’t enough, and it wasn’t fast. The federal response revealed glaring gaps in emergency ...

The environment one lives in directly impacts one’s health — common sense tells us this. If someone knowingly harms another’s health, clear grounds for reparations exist. What happens, then, if our ...

Originally published in Synapse on March 15, 1984. The women’s movement in this country must be broadened to address issues relevant to Black and working-class people, political activist Angela Davis ...

Hunger is a natural part of life, but have you ever stopped to consider why you’re feeling hungry? Understanding the difference between physiological and psychological hunger can help you make more ...

Surgery — one of the three primary treatment options for cancer, alongside radiation and chemotherapy — had always been a theoretical concept for me, something I had only watched in videos or learned ...