“Violence, anti-gay or not, is a problem for police or social workers, not healthcare workers.” In fact, the American Medical ...

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 ...

Fables written centuries ago still echo in the present — quietly, powerfully — reminding us of what it means to be human. As ...

Three winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine were announced in Stockholm, Sweden on Oct. 9. Prize winners Arvid Carlsson, ...

Before I ever came near a stethoscope or a white coat, I understood the beauty of X-rays. The reasoning was... [Second place Synapse Storytelling Contest winner for poetry.] As I step across the bay, ...

The best I can do is light a candle. It is my grandmothers yahrzeit, after all.

Signed: A humbled and inspired medical student, learning to listen with both ears and heart. Saffanat Sumra is a student in the School of Medicine.

Originally published in Synapse on September 25, 1986. In a dramatic reversal of last year’s disappointing showing, the School of Medicine enrolled 39 underrepresented minority students this fall. The ...

Young girls are seeing more Barbie dolls on shelves with careers ranging from scientists, future leaders, and astronauts, and imagining a world where they can be limitless in possibilities. However, ...