The Pulse Archive

Philadelphia is home to thousands of Liberians and other West African immigrants. That means the ebola outbreak abroad is really hitting ...

When you have a serious illness, and you’re confronted with several treatment options, who should choose the best path? You? Your d ...

When the average person thinks about high-tech telescopes, they usually conjure images of the space age Hubble Space Telescope. Those old ...

After centuries of development that has severely decreased their size, wetlands now face a different threat: sea level rise.  ...

You’re facing a big medical decision. Who will help you call the shots? And what’s your doctor’s role in it all?  ...

Advertising surgical procedures means walking fine lines. There’s nothing too novel about Virtua Health System’s knee- ...

Gina Albater dreamed of singing professionally for most of her life. “[In high school], I had a karaoke machine,” she ...

Of course it can’t! But funny what a little bit of misinformation can do in the midst of an outbreak. The hot zone, in 1793, ...

If you’ve ever gotten health care, for anything really, you’ve more than likely been helped at some point in a critical way b ...

Biting midge flies may be one of several insects that help chocolate plants turn flowers into fruit. This month, in Philadelphia, ...

Chances are, in all your visits to the doctor, you’ve been helped, at least once, by a physician assistant, or PA. As new patients ...

Can an art form like opera, almost synonymous with the past, take advantage of modern technology, like the internet and smartphones? ...

Ever get the urge to drink a glass of tomato juice on a flight? You aren’t alone, and there’s a scientific explanation why. ...

Who, exactly, are doctors of osteopathic medicine, and how are they different from other doctors? Most people who have been to a h ...

Data centers — both the big server farms that house “The Cloud” and the small systems storing company data — ...