
The Pulse Archive
Science explains changes in water temperature from beach to beach
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...
11 years ago
Listen 6:28“Proof” author Adam Rogers explains our relationship with booze. It’s always happy hour somewhere, and in his re ...
11 years ago
ListenScientist who made HIV testing day possible recalls big find
This week marks international HIV testing day with testing-related activities going on all over the region. This wee ...
11 years ago
ListenDo 3D mammograms detect more invasive cancers?
New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association compares standard 2D mammography to 3D mammography. Two ...
11 years ago
Listen‘Gaming’ death: how to make end-of-life planning less heavy
A Philadelphia design firm is using a card game to spark difficult conversations about death that don’t lose focus on living. ...
11 years ago
ListenBeetles aid Drexel researcher in monitoring stream health
Environmental scientists are looking for help locating the Elaphrus beetle, a type of ‘indicator speci ...
11 years ago
ListenWhat does the perfect cup of coffee sound like?
Tiny popping sounds are a roaster’s secret road map. Do you have a Pavlovian response to the sound of coffee beans being gro ...
11 years ago
ListenCan data help with suicide prevention?
Close to 40,000 Americans commit suicide every year, and that rate has been rising in the past decade, with an especially sharp increase ...
11 years ago
Millions of people suffer from toenail fungus. It’s disgusting, embarrassing, and nearly impossible to get rid of without the help ...
Air Date: June 20, 2014
ListenAre Lyme disease tests accurately diagnosing patients?
A new report from the New England Center for Investigative Reporting suggests that many labs offering Lyme tests haven’t proved tha ...
11 years ago
ListenSaline: A simple resource not always simple to come by
Hospitals around the country are struggling with a shortage of one of their most relied upon fluids. Reid Kennedy walks through th ...
11 years ago
ListenWhen it comes to salt, how much is too much?
Philly health officials want you to cut the salt—most of us anyway. The city’s new sodium-reduction ...
11 years ago
ListenSouth Philly’s Ibrahim Bakri’s biology class works to determine how household food items affect fruit fly cell proliferation. ...
11 years ago
Listen11 tips to avoid toenail fungus: Easy to catch, hard to kill
It’s sandal weather, the pool and beach beckon — and that means naked, exposed toes. That thought fills millions of Americans wit ...
11 years ago
ListenRetired Pa. health staffers say department muzzled them on fracking
Two retirees from the Pennsylvania Department of Health say its employees were silenced on the issue of Marcellus Shale drilling. ...
11 years ago
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