[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Every evening on the medicine service, patients are handed off. The ritual is so routine it nearly disappears. A list ...

Already passed in the budget bill last summer was an amendment requiring the Consumer Products Safety Commission to withhold ...

FMF is an autoinflammatory genetic disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and serositis (inflammation of the ...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Every evening on the medicine service, patients are handed... [Originally published in Synapse on October 25, 2012.] A ...

At the age of thirteen, my genetic disorder caused my growth to accelerate, leading to an unusually tall stature. My pediatrician predicted a height of at least 6' 4" after puberty, whereas the ...

San Francisco has long been associated with cultural movements that challenge the status quo, and one of its most iconic moments was the Summer of Love in 1967. The era of peace, love, and music left ...

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 ...

The first step is synonymous to the beginning of a great journey to climb to the next level. This first step is in the house of fraternity that has been in existence for a century in a city where ...

Dr. Bob Wachter, UCSF’s Chair of the Department of Medicine, gained a vast twitter following during the COVID pandemic with his informative, direct, and sometimes personal tweets. He’s kept his ...

Human rights activists have been shocked down to their core as they received proof of the Chinese government’s horrific removal and trafficking of detained Uyghur Muslims’ organs. The investigation ...

In 1999, the UCSF Synapse published a short article about the continued efforts to repatriate the remains of Ishi, who spent the last years of his life on the Parnassus campus before dying in 1916.

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 ...