The Pulse Archive

Imagine you’re at home. You have cancer. You just had another round of chemo, and the phone rings. Imagine you’re at h ...

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“Proof” author Adam Rogers explains our relationship with booze. It’s always happy hour somewhere, and in his re ...

This week marks international HIV testing day with testing-related activities going on all over the region.   This wee ...

New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association compares standard 2D mammography to 3D mammography. Two ...

A Philadelphia design firm is using a card game to spark difficult conversations about death that don’t lose focus on living. ...

Environmental scientists are looking for help locating the Elaphrus beetle, a type of ‘indicator speci ...

Tiny popping sounds are a roaster’s secret road map. Do you have a Pavlovian response to the sound of coffee beans being gro ...

Close to 40,000 Americans commit suicide every year, and that rate has been rising in the past decade, with an especially sharp increase ...

Millions of people suffer from toenail fungus. It’s disgusting, embarrassing, and nearly impossible to get rid of without the help ...

A new report from the New England Center for Investigative Reporting suggests that many labs offering Lyme tests haven’t proved tha ...

Hospitals around the country are struggling with a shortage of one of their most relied upon fluids. Reid Kennedy walks through th ...

Philly health officials want you to cut the salt—most of us anyway. The city’s new sodium-reduction ...

South Philly’s Ibrahim Bakri’s biology class works to determine how household food items affect fruit fly cell proliferation. ...

It’s sandal weather, the pool and beach beckon — and that means naked, exposed toes. That thought fills millions of Americans wit ...