The Pulse Archive

Kerry Grens, a regular Pulse contributor and associate editor at The Scientist, joined The Pulse this week to tell us about the 2015 even ...

The Broad Street accident set in motion a series of events that ended up saving Albert Leva’s life, and that of his brother. ...

Apps will allow study participants to submit health data from their iPhones. Apple products, as the saying goes, solve problems we ...

For two Bucks County physicians, a private battle becomes a public fight.  What does it take to challenge the U.S. Food and D ...

Typically, getting in a nasty car accident hinders your life, but in the case of 24-year-old Albert Leva, rear-ending a car full of under ...

WHYY conducted a highly un-scientific survey of what people ate when they had the sniffles as kids, and tried to uncover whether there is ...

Discussions on the impact of obesity usually circle around health issues – diabetes, heart disease, or they hit on the medical cost ...

Researchers pull fingers and make a discovery. It’s a sound that may make you cringe. Or as the perpetrator, may lead to uns ...

Moore’s Law has accurately predicted the trajectory of Silicon Valley’s exponential influence in the world, but the law might ...

This week, The Pulse kicks off a new series looking at the role technology is playing in our well being…”Bit By Bit: How data ...

The rise of the business-savvy doctor. For some, it’s a hedge against an uncertain healthcare landscape. For others further ...

Imagine you have one all-consuming passion in life. The thing you can’t live without. And suddenly, an illness threatens to take th ...

An ongoing study is finding that there may be a connection between depression and inflammation in the peripheral blood and the brain. ...

How Independence Blue Cross is using algorithms to better target care.  The first thing out of John Iovine’s mouth is a ...

In 1781, just as colonial soldiers won the battle of Yorktown, which cinched American independence from the British, Thomas Jefferson too ...