The Pulse Archive
New health insurance options present immigrants with opportunities, challenges
Many recent immigrants in Philadelphia, who are signed up for health insurance through the ACA, now face special hurdles in using that ne
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10 years ago
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Long ago doctors visited the sick, instead of the other way around. Around the time of the Civil War, doctors made 30 to 40 house calls p
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Air Date: May 30, 2014
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GMOs aren’t the Frankensteinian monsters they’ve been accused of being. In fact, they may be crucial to feeding the skyrocket
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10 years ago
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Virgin Galactic shoots for 2015 commercial flight launch
Would you pay $250,000 for a suborbital ride through space?
That’s how much tickets are selling for aboard Virgin Galactic
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10 years ago
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At the Franklin, a tour of ‘Your Brain’
Pondering how you ponder, with the help of the Franklin Institute’s brand-new brain exhibit.
There’s a brand-new build
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10 years ago
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Talking zoonoses with Philadelphia’s Public Health Nerd Club
A look at how infections can leap from animals to people and how public health officials prepare for the next possible pandemic.
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10 years ago
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Is gluten sensitivity fact or fiction?
Australian researcher Peter Gibson recently conducted a study, which seemingly contradicts his own earlier research that found gluten to
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10 years ago
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Surviving a rare disease gives chaplain a unique outlook on life
In this week’s Patient Files, pastor Stephen Weisser talks about beating the odds to survive a rare chronic disease.
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10 years ago
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A little-known corner of the Affordable Care Act could usher home visits by doctors back into the medical mainstream.
A long
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10 years ago
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How one breast oncologist faced her own diagnosis
Dr. Marisa Weiss had been treating breast cancer for over 20 years when she got her own breast cancer diagnosis four years ago.
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10 years ago
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On this special edition of The Pulse, we take a close look at waiting, from medical offices to a local produce market and a research lab.
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Air Date: May 23, 2014
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New book by student journalists celebrates community health leaders
On Tuesday night, elementary and middle school student authors had a book launch for their 2014 publication Leading Healthy Change in
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10 years ago
The Philadelphia region is a hub for the pharmaceutical industry. In fact, some of the drugs that have transformed medicine have been dev
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Air Date: May 16, 2014
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What next for region’s displaced pharma workforce?
Big pharma is restructuring, downsizing, leaving thousands of smart displaced workers trying to figure out next steps.
The room is
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10 years ago
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Element 117: A step closer to the mythical ‘Island of Stability’
Physicists create a new superheavy element with some enlightening side effects.
Physicists recently used a particle accelerator to
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10 years ago
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