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Science

Hurricanes

The Atlantic hurricane season is here — that time of the year when tropical storms whip their way in from the sea, cutting paths of des ...

Air Date: June 15, 2018

Listen 50:06
Roxannie Vazquez watches over her son Jacob Ramiro at the neo-natal intensive care unit of a hospital in Macon, Georgia. He suffers from chronic lung disease. His mom says mold grew in his ventilator in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria damaged the pediatric hospital in San Juan. (Emily Cureton)
The Pulse
Health

Meet baby Jacob

Baby Jacob weighed less than a pound when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico ripping into the hospital roof over his head.

8 years ago

Listen 6:50
Rosita Canboh and community members in Barrio Las Vegas, Cayey, make mosquito nets for their neighborhood. Photo by Fernando Silva
The Pulse
Health

In Puerto Rico, residents band together to defend against mosquitos

In Puerto Rico's mountain towns, grassroots community groups are finding purpose and protection by making homemade mosquito nets.

8 years ago

Listen 5:01
Minerva Ortolaza holds a rechargeable bulb her sister, Santa, uses to light her house. The Ortolazas didn't have light for months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and they had to change their routines to make do. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Puerto Rico crawls toward full re-electrification

As the island’s utility struggles to turn the lights back on, there’s a larger conversation about rebuilding better.

8 years ago

Listen 16:43
The Pulse
Science

What Lab Animals Teach Us

We have dogs to thank for pacemakers. We probably should be a little grateful to mice for the development of chemotherapy. Cows helped us ...

Air Date: June 8, 2018

Listen 49:20
Diana Goodrich and JB Mulcahy are the directors of the Cle Elum Chimp Sanctuary, home to seven chimpanzees once used in biomedical research. (Eilís O’Neill)
The Pulse
Science

At this retirement home, chimps are in charge

Chimpanzees used in biomedical research often have no place to go when they retire. But a sanctuary in central Washington state is now home to seven animals, and counting.

8 years ago

Listen 7:40
A zebafish larva sits in agarose gel to stabilize it on a glass microscope slide. A microelectrode, which looks like a needle point, measures electricity in its brain, telling scientists how often and how severe its seizures are
The Pulse
Science

Zebrafish are the new lab rats

At the University of Calgary scientists say this tiny, tropical fish may be a quicker, cheaper way to find new drugs to treat epilepsy.

8 years ago

Listen 5:34
Three mice climb on and around a clear transport tube. These mice also have crinkled paper nesting material, which they have gathered into one end of their cage in preparation for building a nest. Photo credit: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography
The Pulse
Science

Is it important to keep lab rats happy?

Veterinarians say bored mice and rats that live in barren cages are bad test subjects.

8 years ago

Neuroscientist Ashley Juavinett looks at the cells in a mouse's brain (marked in green) while the mouse looks at something. Part of her research is studying the neurons and circuits in the brain that help us (and mice) see the world. Photo provided by Ashely Juavinett
The Pulse
Science

When your job includes experimenting on animals

Neuroscientist Ashley Juavinett says, “we have medicine and amazing treatments because of all the animal research we’ve done.”

8 years ago

Listen 4:39
The Pulse
Science

Treat Yourself

On this week’s show, we talk with people taking their health and wellness into their own hands — with varying results.

Air Date: June 1, 2018

Listen 48:12
At Holy Smokes, a Philadelphia vape shop, kratom is sold in multiple forms, including as a powder. (Courtesy of Holy Smokes)
The Pulse
Health

Fears and evidence clash in the battle over kratom

The government is reviewing the status of an herbal supplement touted to ease opioid addiction.

8 years ago

Listen 9:58
A group of women in the community of Mariana, in Puerto Rico, meet everyday to cook for their neighbors. They say after the storm, the work and camaraderie have eased depression. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Home-cooked meals and sisterhood — an antidote for Hurricane Maria blues

Still reeling after lasts year’s storm season, women in the town of Mariana, Puerto Rico, spend time together and prepare meals for others to ease depression.

8 years ago

Listen 5:20
Emergency room doctors from the University of Colorado School of Medicine take part in a new kind of firearm training. (Courtesy of Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine)
The Pulse
Health

To better counsel patients, doctors try handling firearms themselves

Emergency medicine doctor Emmy Betz wanted to get more comfortable with guns. Pistol instructor and family physician Michael Victoroff had a proposal for her.

8 years ago

Listen 12:55
Domestic Violence survivor Renee Norris Jones at her home in Nicetown. Norris Jones said that despite enduring years of abuse, nothing gave her more fear than when she was confronted with a gun. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

After years of domestic violence, a gun changed everything

Renee Norris Jones was in an abusive relationship for seven years.

8 years ago

Listen 7:48
A display of rifles in a gun shop, with a flag that says
The Pulse
Science

That time a Second Amendment advocate agreed to sell a ‘smart gun’

Gun-shop owner Andy Raymond thought personalized firearms might get new people interested in guns. Instead, he attracted anger and was cast as an anti-gun gun dealer.

8 years ago

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