The Pulse Archive

School is a place where kids learn about health — everything from nutrition to avoiding STDs. But increasingly, schools across the coun ...

In the face of ringworm, scabies — even lice — keeping kids in class is a priority.

School vaccination laws took a long time to take root. Today, every state has one. Here’s how that happened.

The LGBTQ and #MeToo movements are shifting our cultural attitudes. Is what we teach in the classroom shifting, too?

For Adesola Ogunleye, it took more than 20 years to understand the roots of her anxiety

From panic disorders to social phobia, anxiety is the most common mental health condition in the United States. What toll does anxiety ta ...

Our bodies are programmed to go on alert in the face of danger. But what happens when that reflex goes haywire?

Adaptive surfing gives people a sense of freedom.

When video gamers get tendinopathy or wrist pain, Caitlin McGee has a recovery and plan — and suggestions for better ergonomic play.

We travel to experience awe or learn something new — maybe even to get our worldview shaken up a bit. On this episode, The Pulse explor ...

In science and medicine, we often fail to predict the outcomes of our experiments and actions. The result: unintended consequences. Somet ...

For a long time disability meant one thing — limitations. Think about the word disabled: its literal meaning is broken, not functioning ...

The Pulse explores how the environment shapes biology. Turns out that influence goes deep, down to the molecular level — to th ...

Researchers are studying the factors that can make epigenetic changes to DNA. A mom's stress, diet and daily habits may become an inheritance of sorts for her kids.

Researchers say environmental factors could explain why some identical twins taste things differently