The Pulse Archive
Should websites be required to provide better access to the disabled?
Nearly a quarter century after the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, many web portals are still challenging to navigate. ...
11 years ago
ListenHealth researchers have declared a new public enemy number one…sugar. In the past, this unenviable position has been occupied by fa ...
Air Date: February 5, 2015
ListenFor sale: Medical school names, legacies
Dr. Danielle Ofri, of Bellevue Hospital and NYU, has reservations about selling a medical school’s name to someone with deep pocket ...
11 years ago
ListenSugar: Health’s latest public enemy
Could new food labels help us fight the battle against the sweet stuff? Lisa Young’s a nutritionist and a professor at New Y ...
11 years ago
ListenA day in the life of a narcoleptic
Imagine never feeling rested…ever. Julie Flygare battles narcolepsy every day, and for the most part, she wins. Julie Flygar ...
11 years ago
ListenWhat’s behind parents’ perspectives on vaccination?
Vaccines are a huge health topic right now, especially with the recent measles outbreak that originated in California’s Disneyland. ...
11 years ago
ListenExperiencing measles firsthand, despite being vaccinated
We’re in the middle of a measles scare right now, with over 100 documented cases all over the country – most of them tracing ...
11 years ago
Listen‘Bigger, Faster, Stronger’…with the help of science
Wired.com editor Mark McClusky on the role of science in creating super-athletes. Did you ever wonder how it’s possible for ...
11 years ago
ListenLong distance listening: A special layer of ocean makes eavesdropping easier
How a layer of the Earth’s oceans unlock acoustic mysteries. Maurice Ewing and a team of American scientists set off from W ...
11 years ago
ListenTax preparers brace themselves for clients who went without health insurance
There’s a new reason to be nervous about your next tax appointment…as if you needed one. Darren Dabner just wants to g ...
11 years ago
ListenAnt guts provide insights into how symbiosis works
For this edition of “So, What Do You Do?,” a New Jersey writer sits down with a Drexel biologist to talk about the organisms ...
11 years ago
ListenTax season has an added wrinkle this year—the Affordable Care Act. As a result of the mandate to carry health coverage, those who went ...
Air Date: January 29, 2015
ListenPortrait series focuses on people ‘Torn Apart’ by workplace injury
In 2009, George Beerley was operating heavy equipment at a construction site near Doylestown, Pa., when his machinery jammed. In 2 ...
11 years ago
ListenWhy forecasting weather for the Philadelphia area is so hard to do
Many are calling this week’s hyped up weather forecast a blizzard bust for the Philadelphia region. So what happened? Tom Th ...
11 years ago
ListenPOTUS: Precision Medicine Initiative will bring us closer to a cancer cure
So, what exactly is “precision medicine”? President Barack Obama is launching a “Precision Medicine Initiative.& ...
11 years ago
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