The Pulse Archive

Are computerized hospital alarms trying to tell us too much? The beeping of monitors has become the ever-present audio wallpaper o ...

Medical photographer Janet Parker was the last person to die of smallpox, and the circumstanc ...

Three months after the publishing of the pope’s landmark encyclical on the environment, Catholic parishes and universities are star ...

Today’s show is about moments. Life-changing moments, moments that offered new insights into age-old questions, and “a ha! ...

How and why does that little lightbulb suddenly go on in our minds? Scientific discoveries are often fueled by “aha” m ...

We spend large portions of our lives in and around our homes. It’s where we eat, sleep, and heal. Some of us were born in our homes ...

A decade after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, much of the physical damage the storm caused has been repaired—neighborhoods an ...

Regular Pulse contributor Bethany Brookshire breaks down what we should really be paying attention to in the AC study that got all the re ...

What a lot of us really want from our physicians is care – care that goes beyond managing illness or symptoms. Maureen OR ...

Many surgeons require people who want to undergo gender reassignment surgery to live through a waiting period and to bring documentation ...

Hurricane Katrina and other devastating traumatic events have taught experts that getting back to life as usual can be powerful medicine ...

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 ...