[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Every evening on the medicine service, patients are handed off. The ritual is so routine it nearly disappears. A list ...

Growling abdominal pain. Spiking fevers. Aching joints. Then, 24 to 72 hours later, the symptoms disappear as suddenly as they came. No infection. No obvious trigger. For people with Familial ...

Originally published in Synapse on October 22, 1981. Nearly a year after the conservative Heritage Foundation called for a renewed campaign against internal subversion, Congress and the Reagan ...

Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1973. Monopoly control and citizen, especially minority, participation are crucial factors in developing guidelines for Cable Television. The San ...

Exploring the ethics of living with biomedical knowledge and the negotiation that follows when clinical data meets consumer tech. Digital health is transforming healthcare by changing how patients ...

There was once a small Martian called K who was born with a green pimple in the middle of his forehead. He was from Bufalluna, a small town at the edge of what used to be the Tramuntor Sea, at least ...

Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 23, 2008. There is an important initiative on the November California ballot that would make sweeping changes to California’s renewable energy policies and ...

16 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge lies the gorgeous expanse of Stinson Beach. On this preternaturally warm November day, my classmates and I laid out on the golden sand, people-watching and ...

A great blue heron stands in the middle of some grass in Heron’s Head Park, surrounded by tall weeds and California poppies. Although herons are commonly found fishing by bodies of water, they are ...