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 ...

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

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

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

The new website is scheduled to launch on Sept. 12, 2012. The next issue of Synapse will be on the newsstands on Sept. 20.

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 ...

From magical realism to urgent calls for justice, from fog-draped skylines to lyrical meditations on the self — this year’s Synapse Storytelling Contest showcased the remarkable range of UCSF student ...