The Pulse Archive

Overdose deaths from heroin have been rising all over the country, but some police officers now have a tool that could help prevent those ...

We shadow Bretagne on a training run through the city with her new owner, Wayne Mowry.  It’s a summer day in Philadelph ...

Managing diabetes takes time and effort. So, how do you do that.. at work? We all know someone with diabetes. The count has soared ...

The Philadelphia region is a hub for the pharmaceutical i ...

A Pennsylvania company is in the running for one of the biggest environmental prizes ever — with $25 million going to the winner. ...

We all hate discussing death…even doctors avoid it, focusing instead on treatment option after treatment option. Because of this, m ...

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

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...

“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 ...