That too goes for community support networks. While the deal that ended the government shutdown guarantees SNAP funding ...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] It’s been seven something months since you finished your first year of graduate school. Second year! How blissful…right? You ...

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It’s been one of those days. You lock yourself out of your car. You get into an argument with a loved one. Your professor decides to assign an additional packet of readings over Thanksgiving break to ...

Originally published in Synapse on December 4, 1996. I remember the morning after Proposition 187 passed. I was a third-year student in medicine. My team — residents, interns, and students — all sat ...

The immune system faces a paradox: it must recognize dangerous invaders while carefully sparing the body it protects. This is not an enviable job. Pathogens evolve quickly to hide in plain sight, and ...

On a foggy Friday morning, a cluster of UCSF students in scrubs and backpacks huddle over poster boards a few blocks from the San Francisco immigration courthouse with local Democratic Socialists of ...