
The Pulse Archive
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 ...
11 years ago
ListenSurviving 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. ...
11 years ago
ListenAt 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 ...
11 years ago
ListenA little-known corner of the Affordable Care Act could usher home visits by doctors back into the medical mainstream. A long ...
11 years ago
ListenHow 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. ...
11 years ago
ListenOn 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. ...
Air Date: May 23, 2014
ListenNew 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 ...
11 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 ...
Air Date: May 16, 2014
ListenWhat 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 ...
11 years ago
ListenElement 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 ...
11 years ago
ListenProPublica launches online tool to track your doctor’s billing patterns
The investigation is part of a push to spotlight doctors who may be sending inflated bills to the government. A new ...
11 years ago
ListenHow treating my sudden death syndrome left me at risk of sudden death
In this week’s Patient Files, Michael Downing tells us about his harrowing set of medical encounters related to hypertrophic cardio ...
11 years ago
ListenInside Amtrak’s new fleet of high-tech train engines
Sophie Reid climbs aboard one of Amtrak’s new ACS-64 City Sprinters to uncover the science behind the new fleet of locomotives. ...
11 years ago
ListenWhat is the long-term health impact of pharmaceuticals in our water?
A Penn State University research team is trying to find out whether or not drugs in our water could be contributing to a major public hea ...
11 years ago
ListenFermentation’s simple recipe: vegetables, water, salt and time
One of the oldest food preparation techniques known to man is back. At a recent Science on Tap event at National Mechanics restaur ...
11 years ago
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