Last week, in part one of this two part series on commercial genetic engineering laboratories. Synapse looked inside two of ...

Both kidneys were failing. He used to farm. Now he drove an auto, measuring his days in fares instead of harvests, making the ...

I’ve recently realized, and it’s kind of scary but I am a demographic that is necessary I am from a ...

Health equity has become a key focus in healthcare and biomedical research. However, in clinical trials, equity is often only addressed during the recruitment phase, when clinicians discuss with ...

Last month, Dr. Jennifer Cocohoba from the School of Pharmacy set out to answer this question as UCSF’s 2026 Last Lecture awardee, which was nominated by student vote. And judging by the attendance, ...

A week before I gave birth last February, the research team I work with published a study in a prominent scientific journal on how paid family leave affects maternal and child health. The study found ...

Originally published in Synapse on May 12, 1981. In calling for a national day of protest against the arms race on May 10, the new Women’s Party for Survival is returning to Mother’s Day its original ...

Every time you step into a political argument, you’re not simply debating another person – there is a battle happening in your mind that you can’t quite see: it isn’t a clash between political ...

The theme of this year’s American Public Health Association convention was “Energy, Health and Environment.” However, the keynote addresses and the barroom and hotel lobby talk all focused on Reagan’s ...

Michelle Browder’s latest creation, the ‘Mothers of Gynecology’ monument honors the sacrifice of Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, the enslaved experimental subjects of the so-called “father of gynecology,” ...

One of the most overused cliches describing a PhD is that it's like climbing a mountain -- something that is probably true, but which no third year graduate student wants to hear. I have struggled ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 12, 1974. Dr. Louis Jolyon West, Director of the Neuropsychiatry Institute at UCLA and head of the university’s proposed Center for the Study of the Reduction ...