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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...