The Pulse Archive

Philadelphia musician and recording store owner Brian McTear talks about ‘chasing life expectancy’ with cystic fibrosis. ...

Tom Thunstrom of Phillyweather.net tells us what we can – and can’t – predict when it comes to weather.  No ...

We often think of trauma as the result of a singular negative experience, but many, who spend their entire lives in environments plagued ...

Guess what? Chicken butt!! Research involving chicken butts recently got the attention of regular Pulse contributor ...

Mount Airy resident Anndee Hochman is smelling the Friday-night challah again after living for years without her sense of smell. B ...

We visit a writing workshop in Norristown, Pa., that guides adults with autism through the playwriting process.  The lobby of ...

‘Trauma-informed care’ encourages mental health providers to look at behaviors as clues – as connecting dots to a bigge ...

Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center are searching for new ways to treat smell-loss.  Researchers at the Monell C ...

Understanding the ice surrounding us and why, exactly, it makes us slip. In this winter of our discontent, traction has become a f ...

An interview with clinical psychologist Kim Mueser about new approaches to schizophrenia treatment.  Schizophrenia is often v ...

Psychologist Frederick Frese explains how his experience with schizophrenia shaped his passion for helping others with mental illness.&nb ...

In the world of cheesesteaks, Geno Vento stands head and shoulders above the crowd. But a lifetime spent around this delicious, but fatte ...

When we think of the damage oil can do, we often think of the large spills at sea. But the kind of oil problem we’re talking about ...

Wild bumblebees, blight-reistant potatoes and dogs with obsessive compulsive disorder.  Kerry Grens, an associate editor at T ...

How one group is addressing the mental health needs of undocumented immigrants facing deportation.  By the time Pedro Avila a ...