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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 ...

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Surviving 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.  ...

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At 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 ...

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The return of the house call?

A little-known corner of the Affordable Care Act could usher home visits  by doctors back into the medical mainstream. A long ...

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How 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.  ...

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The Pulse – May 23, 2014

On 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

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New 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 ...

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The Pulse – May 16, 2014

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

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What 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 ...

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Element 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 ...

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ProPublica 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 ...

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How 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 ...

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Inside 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. ...

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What 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 ...

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Fermentation’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 ...

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