The Pulse Archive

What are the factors that contribute to great tasting tap water?  A professional water taste tester explains.  Arthur vo ...

What happens when one person is asked donate an organ to another person?  “Under the Skin,” now premiering at the ...

What 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 ...

Please fill out the form below to help us and our partner, ClearHealthCosts.com, make health care costs more transparent. (It may take th ...

Maiken Scott, host of WHYY’s The Pulse, offers a step-by-step video guide to filling out the price check form.   ...

Haircuts. Houses. Plane tickets. Computers. Ever bought any of these things without knowing the price beforehand, and then just paid the ...

On Wednesday, March 4, the Supreme Court will hear a case that challenges one of Obamacare’s key provisions: subsidies that make co ...

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of subsidies key to the success of the Affordable Care ...

How Thomas Evans served royalty and helped modernize dentistry. Not every dentist gets to be Napoleon III’s dentist. That ho ...

Linda Wang, a medical student from Canada with a hankering for jazz, was just passing through Philadelphia visiting family when she disco ...

A cross-country flight quickly turns into a medical student’s worst nightmare. As the long Thanksgiving weekend of 2014 drew ...

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Sales on medical widgets are helping to pay for the health law. Device makers say the tax is a job-killer. High on the to-do list ...

What exactly is a vitamin? How many vitamins are out there? And why do we believe vitamins are so good for our health?  In he ...

Brian Wansink of Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab on helpful tips to reconfigure your kitchen and drop some pounds in the pr ...