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The website is working much better, but most Americans need guidance to sift through the many coverage choices. The race was on th ...

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‘I’m the same guy’ – severe brain injury, the long road back and the science that made it possible

One night, Brian Hickey hopped on a train to meet friends at a bar. It turned into a five-year journey to the edge of death and back. ...

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Inside the world of medical illustration with Mt. Airy artist Birck Cox

We visit a medical illustrator’s studio, where boxes of bones, skulls and anatomy textbooks come to life through paint strokes and ...

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The Supreme Court decided to invalidate patents on human genes in June 2013. (Douglas C. Pizac/AP Images)
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The year’s most inspirational science stories: Myriad genetics ruling, CRISPR and brain funding

Kerry Grens, an associate editor at The Scientist, joins The Pulse regularly for updates on the latest developments in science. Th ...

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The Pulse – December 20, 2013

Two decades after the release of the Oscar-winning movie “Philadelphia,” we take a look back at the film’s legacy, its ...

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Philadelphia AIDS survivor Suellen Kehler holds some of the more than 20 medications and supplements she takes each day to keep her HIV infection under control.
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By the numbers: HIV/AIDS stigma changing, but infection still spreads

Much headway has been made in HIV treatment, with far fewer AIDS deaths today than 20 years ago, when the film “Philadelphia” ...

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Two decades ago, Tom Hanks and ‘Philadelphia’ prompted changing attitudes toward HIV-AIDS

An in-depth look at the making of the film, its impact, and the distance traveled in fighting HIV and AIDS. Twenty years ago this ...

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Are the health benefits of a gluten-free diet fact or fad?

Dr. Stephanie Moleski, a gasteroenterologist at Jefferson Hospital, gives her take on gluten sensitivity.  As a gasteroentero ...

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Going gluten-free is bad enough; try explaining it to your Italian grandma

In this Patient File, Valerie DiMambro talks about the year she got divorced, found bed bugs and got diagnosed with celiac disease. < ...

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What’s eating our evergreen trees?

Local evergreens have a tiny enemy in the wild, and researchers are enlisting citizen scientists to battle the bugs. The balsam fi ...

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How to see through sound with Philadelphia’s Austin Seraphin

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How did birth move from the home to the hospital, and back again?

Margaret Marsh, professor of history at Rutgers University takes us through the timeline of home birth.      ...

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