The Pulse Archive

This week on The Pulse, we look into why medical bills are so expensive and hard to understand. We also hear one man’s excr ...

If figuring out how to navigate the new health insurance exchanges has your head spinning, know this:  You have lots of company.&nbs ...

Medical bills are expensive and really hard to understand. The Pulse talks with a few people who are trying to change the way it’s ...

The Pulse’s Elana Gordon sat next to some local folks as they tried to sign up for health insurance through HealthCare.gov. It wasn ...

Doctors usually ask us how we feel – but New York physician Danielle Ofri says how and what doctors feel can be the elepha ...

If you hate reading maps or have trouble judging how much will fit in a suitcase, science writer Faye Flam feels your pain.  ...

In this week’s edition of Patient Files, we take a look at pain, recovery, remorse and a heavy dose of “I told you so.” ...

Hi, I’m Maiken Scott, host of WHYY’s The Pulse. You can sign up for our newsletter by clicking the headline above. And l ...

In this followup pilot episode of The Pulse, we take a look at trials – clinical trials, personal trials, trying too hard, and tryi ...

Interacting with the health-care system can be pretty annoying. Long waits, endless tests, big bills – these things can rattle your ...

In this followup pilot episode of The Pulse, we take a look at trials – clinical trials, personal trials, trying too hard, and tryi ...

Residency has been described as the ultimate, the final trial in medical training. Ask older docs to recall their residency training, and ...

In the 1990s, a new treatment was getting a lot of hype as a “cure-all” for devastating diseases: Human gene therapy. ...

Problems with how researchers measure statistical significance are just one potential roadblock in producing good research. Many others a ...

The Delaware Valley is an international leader in health, science and innovation. Living in such a brain-rich region, it’s not that ...