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

Yesterday It’s a choice to trustand loveBut Godtrust in what, whom, when?how to love ?and be loved?

Fables written centuries ago still echo in the present — quietly, powerfully — reminding us of what it means to be human. As we stand on the edge of an AI-powered future, with machines learning faster ...

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.

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

Originally published on September 21, 1995. Among the books that have influenced my thinking are A Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. They both model the future and warn us to be vigilant about how our world ...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] The experience of dying can vary greatly. Some see a light at the end of a tunnel. Others recollect all their life events.

Originally published in Synapse on September 19, 1985. In the next few days, Gov. George Deukmejian will decide the fate of a bill which would create a state health service corps. The corps would ...

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.

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The environment one lives in directly impacts one’s health — common sense tells us this. If someone knowingly harms another’s health, clear grounds for reparations exist. What happens, then, if our ...