Deadline Extended: There's Still Time to Enter! We've extended the deadline for the Synapse Storytelling Contest to midnight on Friday, July 10, 2026, giving current UCSF students one more week to ...

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 ...

I returned to the Patient Support Corps this past year as a medical student and was reminded that many of the formative lessons that I learned about healthcare in general were ones I learned before my ...

Science has an isolation problem. I tend to think of scientists as contentedly living on a deserted island, where we’ve established a means of communicating new discoveries amongst ourselves, but we ...

When James was 7 weeks old, his parents noticed unusual bruising and spots on his tiny skin and dismissed them at first as newborn quirks. A fever changed everything and sent them to the ER. There, ...

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 ...

First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Non Fiction category. America: a country that brags about its technology and medical advancements all the while allowing Black mothers to die.

Hunger is a natural part of life, but have you ever stopped to consider why you’re feeling hungry? Understanding the difference between physiological and psychological hunger can help you make more ...