The Pulse Archive

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

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 ...

Two retirees from the Pennsylvania Department of Health say its employees were silenced on the issue of Marcellus Shale drilling. ...

How do you get people to be healthier—more active? Why take the stairs when there’s an elevator? Why walk to work when you can dr ...

Should vocal fry be put on hold in an interview setting?   Vocal fry. It’s a common speech pattern that’s be ...