The Pulse Archive

Dr. Marisa Weiss had been treating breast cancer for over 20 years when she got her own breast cancer diagnosis four years ago.  ...

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. ...

On Tuesday night, elementary and middle school student authors had a book launch for their 2014 publication Leading Healthy Change in ...

The Philadelphia region is a hub for the pharmaceutical industry. In fact, some of the drugs that have transformed medicine have been dev ...

Big pharma is restructuring, downsizing, leaving thousands of smart displaced workers trying to figure out next steps. The room is ...

Physicists create a new superheavy element with some enlightening side effects. Physicists recently used a particle accelerator to ...

The investigation is part of a push to spotlight doctors who may be sending inflated bills to the government. A new ...

In this week’s Patient Files, Michael Downing tells us about his harrowing set of medical encounters related to hypertrophic cardio ...

Sophie Reid climbs aboard one of Amtrak’s new ACS-64 City Sprinters to uncover the science behind the new fleet of locomotives. ...

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 ...

One of the oldest food preparation techniques known to man is back. At a recent Science on Tap event at National Mechanics restaur ...

Mycologist Paul Stamets explains what fungi do for the planet and how they could be used to correct many of the problems that ail us. ...

When you consider the sizeable challenges faced by Camden, N.J.—poverty, drugs, and “white flight”—it may seem hard to be ...

Researcher Erik Cordes talks about coral reefs and sharks via two-way radio at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.  A couple we ...

Two Jefferson University Hospital doctors are offering fellow physicians a different way to learn – and their approach was inspired ...