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Penn doctor releases fictional encyclopedia of imaginary diseases

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

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How doctors are framing the flu conversation, after strain mutation

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

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The Pulse – Dec. 12 2014

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

Air Date: December 10, 2014

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 Maiken Scott interviews Ken Lacovara, Drexel University paleontology professor, about his team's discovery of Dreadnoughtus. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Burke)
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The Pulse celebrates 1 year with live studio production

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

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With big money comes big questions for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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 ...

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The Pulse: Things that made us go ‘Hmmm…’

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

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Josie Dillard (left) and Danielle Kreeger. (J. Woods/ The Pulse)
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Getting her hands dirty is part of the job, and the fun, for environmental scientist

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

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The Pulse – Dec. 5 2014

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 ...

Air Date: December 4, 2014

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Karen Taylor and Ron Coleman lead a workshop on hearing voices in Philadelphia. Participants traveled from as far away as Wisconsin and Florida to attend. (Kimberly Paynter/for The Pulse)
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Bargaining with the voices in our heads

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

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Stranger than fiction: Star Trek’s ‘tricorder’ could soon be a reality

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 ...

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Many people use a neti pot and salt water to relieve wintertime nose congestion. (Taunya English/for WHYY)
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Is your neti pot routine safe, effective?

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

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Why do we itch? New research says it has to do with the chemical messenger: seratonin. (Shutterstock http://shutr.bz/1yjm1Nb)
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This week in science: Pain’s relation to itch, sex equality in research and white-nose syndrome

Everyone itches, and when we scratch, the itch always seems to come back even stronger. But why?  Dr. Bethany Brookshire, a s ...

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Could fog disinfectant machines help fight the spread of Ebola?

Sanosil International and other companies that produce foggers say their tools can be more effective than traditional methods.  ...

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The Pulse: Because science is all around us, and man is it cool

WHYY’s The Pulse celebrates its first birthday this week, in a celebration ...

11 years ago

Acute vocal fold hemorrhage in a young
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The Pulse: The science of five everyday things

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