There's Still Time to Enter! We've extended the deadline for the Synapse Storytelling Contest to midnight on Friday, July 10, ...

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 ...

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, ...

New puppet hospital. The newest wing on Moffitt Hospital has been solely dedicated to the delicate art and science of puppet surgery. Seen here is ‘ Mr. Potatohead after cosmetic surgery. Next in line ...

For more than a century, the operating room has quietly recorded not only what surgical culture values, but also how medicine responds to uncertainty and responsibility, and holds the accumulated ...

In this series, past editors reflect on their time leading the paper. As I looked through my old articles, a favorite article that stands out is one I wrote about a mosquito-infested backpacking trip ...

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 ...