The Pulse Archive
A happy marriage, children, a good life…then illness changes everything. Sixty-five million Americans care for an ill or elderly lo
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Air Date: April 18, 2014
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A UD green chemist turns chicken feathers, soybeans into renewable building material
In this edition of So, What Do You Do?, Shoshana Martyniak asks UD’s Richard Wool how he makes vegan leather out of chicken feather
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10 years ago
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Researchers replace guidelines with fables, to test doctors’ memories
Can person-to-person storytelling help doctors remember key information?
Two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recentl
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10 years ago
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Dispatch from a Philly pharma conference
A pharma conference, eyeforpharma 2014, was in Philly this week,
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10 years ago
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Caring for caregivers when their lives feel ‘a bit like war’
A look at the challenges of caregiving and the ways in which we can help those providing care for a loved one.
Every year, 6
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10 years ago
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Medical questions linger as marijuana legalization proposal hits New Jersey
What do we know about marijuana’s impact on our brains?
At the start of the New Year, as a new law went into effect le
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10 years ago
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From magic mushrooms to skateboarding physics: A Philadelphia Science Festival preview
Here are the seven events you need to see at this year’s Philadephia Science Festival.
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10 years ago
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When it comes to attractiveness of beards, it’s about what’s rare, not the hair
New research shows that when beards or clean shaven faces are
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10 years ago
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In the lead up to the Affordable Care Act enrollment deadline, we spoke with folks researching plans and trying to decide what level of c
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Air Date: April 11, 2014
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The Obamacare rollout continued: The varied fates of three enrollees
Now that the clock has wound down for health care enrollment through the Affordable Care Act this year, The Pulse thought it a prime time
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11 years ago
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In a sea of mobile health devices, how do we know which ones are most effective?
The number of digital health applications is exploding, but who’s keeping tabs on the safety and effectiveness of all the options?
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11 years ago
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The science behind fixing Philadelphia’s $550,000 pothole problem
The streets are lurking with a dangerous science experiment that’s been brewing underground for months.
Potholes are a worst
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11 years ago
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Mapping microbes across the globe
Microbes. Most of us are generally aware that these micro-organisms are all around us, but only the malevolent kind seem to make it into
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11 years ago
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3 science stories not to miss: Saturn’s moon, stressed-out DNA, and Italian violins
The Scientist’s Kerry Grens updates us on a discovery on Saturn’s moon, new research correlating stress with telomere length
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11 years ago
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A good sense of humor helps in coping with epilepsy
In this week’s Patient Files, epilepsy advocate Dan Dougherty talks about the need for a light heart when dealing with a heavy diag
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11 years ago
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