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Waiting for a kidney and ‘freedom’ from the dialysis chair

Imagine waiting seven years for a call that could promise new life.  About 6,000 people in the Philadelphia tri-state area ar ...

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The Pulse – March 14, 2014

On today’s show… we wait. We’ll wait at doctor’s offices, we’ll sit with patients who are waiting for organ ...

Air Date: March 14, 2014

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What makes a well-designed waiting room?

A former designer of waiting rooms for hospitals and medical offices shares the secret to a good waiting room.  Natural light ...

12 years ago

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Trenton clinics abandon long-term schedule to try to reduce wait times

The concept is called advanced access, and it encourages providers to get rid of the backlog by doing away with long-term scheduling book ...

12 years ago

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Nurse Keenya Eubanks with Dr. Carl Chudnofsky
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The art of triage — one emergency room’s approach

A look at the systems one medical emergency department uses to keep from getting bogged down. Einstein Medical Center’s Nort ...

12 years ago

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Dr. Gearhart moves from appointment to appointment at Pennsylvania Hospital. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
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The other side of the waiting room door

Dr. Gearhart of Penn Ob/Gyn and Midwifery walks us through the complicated shuffle of his daily appointment routine.  Wait ti ...

12 years ago

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The algorithms and strategies behind minimizing your elevator wait time

Theresa Christy, a mathematician and Otis Elevator Research Fellow, explains the science behind your elevator experience.  So ...

12 years ago

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A Villanova grad student holds a moss core with a black spruce in the lab (Laura Benshoff/for The Pulse).
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Villanova scientists predict oil sands’ impact on peat, climate change

Scientists study the impact of pollution on peat for clues about the future of Earth’s climate. You may be familiar with pea ...

12 years ago

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(Illustration by Tony Auth)
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Waiting for sex: A 12-month experiment in abstinence

Would you voluntarily give up sex for a full year? One woman did and decided to share her story with The Pulse.  Waiting can ...

12 years ago

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The Pulse – March 7, 2014

Where do you get your weather forecasts? TV news channels?  Maybe you use the web? Or the local paper? The Farmers Almanac? No matte ...

Air Date: March 7, 2014

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NBC 10 meteorologist Sheena Parveen preparing winter storm updates
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The science of forecasting wintry weather

Everybody loves talking about the weather. But how do we know what numbers to fret about in the first place? Remember ...

12 years ago

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Why are no two snowflakes the same?

An end-of-winter reminder on the science and wonder of snowflakes. Dirty snowdrifts and hard-packed piles can make it hard to appr ...

12 years ago

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How Walgreens is predicting your cold and flu spending patterns

Using algorithms to predict when each cold and flu season will hit and what medicines customers will buy.   It’s a ...

12 years ago

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(Illustration by Tony Auth)
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How did the Farmers’ Almanac ‘nail’ this winter’s forecast? That’s a secret

With secret formulas, a weather “prognosticator” and nearly 200 years of history, the Farmers’ Almanac has its own take ...

12 years ago

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Malacologist Amanda Lawless (left) and Teagan Keating show off two of the nearly 10 million specimens in the Academy of Natural Sciences collection. (Kimberley Paynter/for The Pulse)
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Malacologist Amanda Lawless talks marauding African land snails and other mollusks

In this week’s ‘So, What Do You Do?’ segment, public health student Teagan Keating asks Amanda Lawless about her career ...

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