
The Pulse Archive
With nearly 200-year-old pipes, Philly’s water leak rate stays high
More than 60 million gallons of drinking water leak out of Philadelphia’s water pipes…every day. Every day, the Philad ...
10 years ago
ListenCell division, broadcast live and in 3D, offers fresh insight to researchers
It’s a dream job for a man who loves science, technology, video games, and movies. It’s a dream job for a man wh ...
10 years ago
ListenWhat if restaurants billed like hospitals?
Last week, we launched a new initiative with Clear Health Costs called WHYY PriceCheck to try to help create transparency around pricing ...
10 years ago
Listen 5:5055 years later, local cancer discovery still shaping research
The discovery of the Philadelphia Chromosome was a crucial link between cancer and genetics. There is a hallway in Fox Chase Cance ...
10 years ago
ListenWhat are the factors that contribute to great tasting tap water? A professional water taste tester explains. Arthur vo ...
10 years ago
ListenArden Theater’s new play finds the funny in kidney transplants
What happens when one person is asked donate an organ to another person? “Under the Skin,” now premiering at the ...
10 years ago
ListenWhat if every time you bought a bottle of Poland Spring or Evian water to quench your thirst, you first poured a third of it onto the str ...
Air Date: March 5, 2015
ListenWHYY’s Pricecheck: Share your medical bill, make health costs transparent
Please fill out the form below to help us and our partner, ClearHealthCosts.com, make health care costs more transparent. (It may take th ...
10 years ago
How to fill out WHYY’s Pricecheck form [video]
Maiken Scott, host of WHYY’s The Pulse, offers a step-by-step video guide to filling out the price check form. ...
10 years ago
WHYY’s PriceCheck needs your help to crowdsource health costs
Haircuts. Houses. Plane tickets. Computers. Ever bought any of these things without knowing the price beforehand, and then just paid the ...
10 years ago
ListenOn Wednesday, March 4, the Supreme Court will hear a case that challenges one of Obamacare’s key provisions: subsidies that make co ...
Air Date: February 26, 2015
ListenObamacare on trial…again: King vs. Burwell
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of subsidies key to the success of the Affordable Care ...
10 years ago
ListenThis med student scours cities (and their hospitals) for pianos
Linda Wang, a medical student from Canada with a hankering for jazz, was just passing through Philadelphia visiting family when she disco ...
10 years ago
ListenThe Philly dentist who helped fix Napoleon III’s bad tooth
How Thomas Evans served royalty and helped modernize dentistry. Not every dentist gets to be Napoleon III’s dentist. That ho ...
10 years ago
ListenA cross-country flight quickly turns into a medical student’s worst nightmare. As the long Thanksgiving weekend of 2014 drew ...
10 years ago
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