The Pulse Archive

Can candy be good medicine at the doctor’s office? When a child visits the pediatrician these days, she often comes home wit ...

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina struck, much of the physical damage the storm caused in New Orleans has been repaired. But a deepe ...

BioBots, a Philly biotech startup, gears up for growth.  Complete with big windows, a high-rise view and shiny lab space, the ...

For those seeking gender reassignment surgeries, long stigmatized and rarely covered by insurance, many challenges remain.  A ...

You open a medical bill, thinking ‘okay, how bad can it be?’ Sometimes it’s bad, very bad. Elana Gordon brings us a sto ...

The idea could shorten waitlists, but violates a long-held taboo.    After a routine check-up in August 2004, Sal ...

Fainting at the sight of a needle or blood is so common that Sharon Burke, a registered emergency nurse at Thomas Jefferson University Ho ...

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recently wrote “We did a lot of crazy things that seemed crazy at the time. Many of thos ...

Imagine looking at amazing space simulations all day long, on a massive computer. Stars exploding, galaxies forming, crashing together. A ...

We’ve all heard how sitting is poison.  Recent research has linked it with heart problems, diabetes and even increased cancer ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...

What color is your ribbon, your pin, your rubber bracelet? We hear about the economics of awareness campaigns, the story behind the color ...

Installing the guts of a computer into a beehive has its challenges. On a makeshift workbench tucked into the far right corner of ...

Corporate sponsorship of illness awareness can be a powerful tool to raise money. But if the brand and the cause don’t allign, the ...

The frontman of a Philly punk band channels his rage over breast cancer marketing and turns it into art. Pinkwash is a Philadelphi ...