Woodson, an African American historian with a PhD from Harvard, initially dubbed it, “Negro History Week” and picked February ...

The patient’s blurry vision reminded me that the eye is more than a window into the body; it is a mirror reflecting the system itself. In the words of Charlotte Bronte, “the soul, fortunately, has an ...

In this series, past editors-in-chief reflect on their time leading the paper. What years did you serve as EIC? I served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008-2009. Why did you want to serve as EIC? I have ...

Synapse at the time was shaped by the remarkable Tim Neagle, the most talented writer and journalist I’ve ever met. After a decade as a National News editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, he joined ...

President Barack Obama moved last week to reverse a U.S. policy restricting international abortion-related services. A policy known as the “Mexico City Policy” or the “Global Gag Rule” banned USAID ...

This is the mind’s game behind polarization in humans: our opinions are often less about truth and more about identity.

Synapse arrived not as a rebel publication but as an act of institutional optimism. UCSF was already nearly a century old, yet still in the process of imagining itself as a coherent campus rather than ...

The California Medical Association (CMA) convenes physicians from across the state annually at its House of Delegatesmeeting, represented by county medical society sections (such as San Francisco - ...

Were fleeting ghosts or if we should stay, I feel the weight of first love fray. I fear the feelings are bound to pass, Yet still I am, was, and stayed They seduce and they smile, they brood and they ...