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 — ...

A psychiatrist at Stanford, Kenneth Colby, is trying to program a computer to do therapy; he calls it “the mad doctor.” Conditioning by an electric shock was recently done in England to cure an ...

On February 23, the Family Medicine Interest Group hosted Family Medicine in the Valley, a lunchtime panel that brought three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Originally published in Synapse on March 15, 1984. The women’s movement in this country must be broadened to address issues relevant to Black and working-class people, political activist Angela Davis ...

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 ...

When Southwest Airlines canceled system-wide flights during the 2022 winter holidays, stranded passengers sleeping in airport hallways made headlines. The scenes were eerily reminiscent of something ...