Originally published in Synapse on 14 April 14, 2005. Dr. Robert Dean, currently a clinical fellow in the Urology Department, ...

There, abnormal white blood cell counts revealed acute myeloid leukemia (AML), upending their lives forever. Within hours, ...

Those three PBMs, notably including United Health, manage 80% of prescription drug claims. They also own healthcare services ...

Disney Makes UCSF-Stanford Acquisition Bid. Plans for the Parnassus campus include blowing up the old UC Hospital building — ...

Originally authored by E. Fuller Torrey and published in Synapse on March 31, 1969. Machines are even making inroads into psychiatry and the human mind. A psychiatrist at Stanford, Kenneth Colby, is ...

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 ...

“Confession of the Eye” is a narrative commentary that reflects on a personal encounter in the emergency department to explore the broader systemic challenges within the U.S. healthcare system, ...

Were fleeting ghosts or if we should stay, I feel the weight of first love fray. I fear the feelings are bound to pass, Yet still I am, was, and stayed They seduce and they smile, they brood and they ...

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in healthcare refer to specific measurable performance metrics assessing the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of care provided by organizations to understand ...

Synapse is the student news website of the University of California, San Francisco. It serves as a primary source of communication for the entire San Francisco campus community. This online ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 12, 1974. Dr. Louis Jolyon West, Director of the Neuropsychiatry Institute at UCLA and head of the university’s proposed Center for the Study of the Reduction ...

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 ...