The Pulse Archive

The Philadelphia Parks Department is launching experiments at three different test sites in city parks in the hopes of designing a forest ...

Jillian Bauer has found a lot of support in “the rooms.” That’s shorthand for meetings of recovery groups, like ...

Piggy-backing on the recent news that 2014 was the hottest year on record, President Obama made a passionate plea for the need to address ...

Over the past 15 years, scientists and physicians have come to realize that concussions are very serious injuries. In fact, about 20 perc ...

Imagine you’re young, and totally healthy. For a few nights, you wake up in cold sweats, feel generally lousy, have some respirator ...

Nestled between a hoagie shop and an Italian restaurant, a former administrative building on South 10th Street in Philadelphia is now an ...

It’s a move that some experts say could save the health system billions of dollars. And, it could soon be a reality. ...

…except maybe the “vacant” sign on the lavatory. As the constant drumbeat about climate change and environmental ...

Do kids in daycare really get sick more than kids who are not in daycare? Every year in the middle of cold and flu season, parents ...

Walk around near a hospital, and you’ll see healthcare workers out and about, wearing their scrubs. It’s the colorful, pajama ...

If you chose the obvious, scatological answer, well, no offense, but you’re probably lying to cover up all the weird stuff you̵ ...

A pharma revolution is afoot: biosimilars. They’re like generics, except for more complex biologic drugs that can’t exactly b ...

Fitness trackers may do a decent job tracking fitness, but can they make lasting change in human behavior? A new opinion piece in ...

Hayden Dahmm is a senior engineering student at Swarthmore College.  He and his twin brother Ethan, were born more than three months p ...

During his 2008 inaugural address, Mayor Michael Nutter set a lofty goal: make Philadelphia the greenest city in America. The next ...