The Pulse Archive

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 ...

Residents of one Camden, N.J., high-rise — Northgate II — now have a new health-care option, a doctor’s office in the ground fl ...

At the very bottom of Broad Street is an island the size of Center City.  In its day, huge Navy ships were built there and re ...

Thanks to the powerful lure of social media, academia is making a big shift right now. Traditionally, academics speak their own la ...

Join WHYY’s award-winning health and science reporters explore stories at the heart of health, science and innovation. This is ...