Sylvie Sturm

In the quiet uncertainty of an emergency department, a woman in gut-wrenching pain arrives, unable to catch a breath. Within a matter of minutes, Dr. Sally Graglia completes a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), confirming her concern of ovarian torsion — an excruciating medical emergency where an ovary or fallopian tube twists on the tissues supporting it.

Last month, the nations of the world gathered in Montreal to try to do something about the growing threat from global warming. At least, most of them did. The United States showed up to gum up the process and make an international fool of itself. It succeeded brilliantly on both counts.

I am a young womanOn oral contraceptivesAnd ripe for endothelial injury:I am afflicted with clumsiness

Anti-abortion groups have initiated increasingly aggressive activities in San Francisco since the fall of Roe v. Wade, with some ignoring protective zones around clinics and even threatening violence.In response, community groups, nonprofits and local government have stepped up efforts to ensure access to abortions and reproductive health support in San Francisco — both for people who live in the city and for those who travel here seeking help.

[Originally published in Synapse on January 29, 2004.] A critically ill man who is infected with TB sits at home and refuses to go to the hospital. He has infected his entire family and possibly others. His family begs him to go to the local emergency room, but he refuses. The man is afraid to journey to his local hospital. Weeks later, he dies.

We are in the third year of the three-day Russian “military exercise” into Ukraine, and with the incoming American political administration, questions have arisen over whether the US should cease supporting Ukraine’s struggle for sovereignty.

In his essay “ Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience,”

The chain of events that began on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 and culminate on the steps of the Capitol in Washington this week took more than a half century to unfold. The history connecting Rosa Parks to Barack Obama, from the mother of the civil rights movement to the ascension to the presidency of its most perfect child, has been an extraordinary period in the ever-unfolding story of the United States of America.

After a decade of moving between the Bay Area, the Midwest, and Mexico, in August of last year, I finally moved back to the lively Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Residents express fear and concern for their community over Trump administration’s threats of mass deportation