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 ...

I like butterflies and butterflies like salt. In the Amazon Rainforest the butterflies land on me desperate for sodium when... [Originally published in Synapse on October 22, 1981.] Nearly a year ...

Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest's fiction category.] There was once a small Martian called K who was ...

There is an important initiative on the November California ballot that would make sweeping changes to California’s renewable ...

Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1973. Monopoly control and citizen, especially minority, participation are crucial factors in developing guidelines for Cable Television. The San ...

"The doctors said there is no hope." The rain suddenly sounded louder. My mother looked back at me. She didn't say anything. She didn't need to. I knew that look.

Algorithms can forecast which patients are likely to return to the hospital. Whether anyone has the resources to intervene is another question. The changes were subtle. A laboratory value drifted.

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, ...

I am a descendant of a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. I grew up surrounded by fragments of this history through my grandparents’ stories and documentaries about survival, loss, and resilience. My ...

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 ...