The Pulse Archive

An author wonders if CPR is always warranted. Everyone has seen a movie or TV show where one character is drowning or choking or h ...

After more than a decade spent uncovering, cleaning, studying and preserving the bones of one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, D ...

The next wave in wearable technology will attempt to open the mind. The founders of Halo Neuroscience don’t have a tidy elev ...

I wanted to read the lines so desperately, to force the words from the pages into my mind and out of my mouth. But they were ceasing to b ...

Imagine a kind of amnesia wherein everybody forgets about you (Amnesia inversa). Imagine a disease that causes you to contract the infirm ...

After the big announcement that this year’s flu vaccine may offer less protection than expected, some doctors are scrambling for th ...

Hate to break it to you, but your fitbit is old news. Electronic brain stimulation (think battery-powered headbands that help improve the ...

WHYY-FM’s award-winning health and science program turned one this month and its team celebrated with a one hour, in-studio perform ...

When a breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug with a sticker price of more than $300,000 per year hit the market two years ago, the cost raise ...

WHYY’s The Pulse celebrates its first birthday this week, capping off a yea ...

Pretty much everyone is familiar with ecology, but it’s a broad term and it covers a lot of territory.   For our segmen ...

A quick ethics test: Should a not-for-profit foundation make $3.3 billion selling royalty rights for a drug that treats its own donors an ...

New treatments for a stigmatized group of patients emerge. Berta Britz hid the voices she’s heard for a long time, spending ...

The tale of a high-stakes medical device competition inspired by a sci-fi classic and a local team boldly going into the finals. I ...

Slosh a little salty water into your nose, and it’s like a satisfying kick in the sinuses. For some people, nasal irrigation ...