[Originally published in Synapse on September 17, 1998.] Research leading to treatments of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and ...

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The intervention exists outside the algorithm. It depends on the clinician who receives the alert, the nurse who has time to call the patient after discharge, the social worker who can arrange ...

Originally published in Synapse on September 13, 1990.

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 ...

Originally published in Synapse on May 25, 1989. The eyes of medical professionals and legislators throughout the nation will be trained on New York this summer as unprecedented regulations limiting ...

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, ...

What does it mean to practice medicine in a time of political upheaval, environmental crisis, and deepening inequality? This unsettled question anchored the 11th Biennial Conference of the Society for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...