The Pulse Archive

It was a long, hard winter evening in the emergency department at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where Dr. Stephen Ludwig ...

Men are a growing minority in the nursing profession. They make up about 10 percent of registered nurses in the United States. Reg ...

The mouth is the window to the soul. It’s prime real estate in your body, and every biological system that you have puts up a flags ...

When I ask him what the last meal he ate was, he hesitates, trying to remember: “I love chicken, maybe it was chicken? I don’ ...

Is a procedure aimed at fixing breastfeeding complications a medical necessity, or trendy diagnosis? Ear, nose and throat surgeon ...

Firsts can be life changing. Think about your first kiss. Your first time behind the wheel of a car. But what about the first time y ...

How do we fight an enemy if that enemy is within us? On this week’s show, we look at what happens when your body turns against you. ...

Who is the new aristocracy investing in mouth décor? One sales representative says his clientele includes “a lot of athletes, a lot of ...

If your stomach has been feeling off lately, you may try taking a probiotic or eating a new kind of yogurt to correct your gut biome. But ...

My Great-Uncle Moishe Morris “Mace” Bugen was a legendary character in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania where he lived all o ...

The back of a sprawling warehouse in Tampa, Florida, looks kind of like entering the Matrix, or some sort of science-fiction movie. There ...

A hundred years ago, Penikese Island was home to a leper colony, then a school for troubled boys and a bird sanctuary. This past fall, Pe ...

When something goes wrong, we all hope a doctor will find the problem and fix it, so that sooner or later, we can get back to our real li ...

When we’re confronted with new information, we instinctively question whether it comes from a reliable source – and that thir ...

A law enforcement tool designed to combat gun violence has found a new use as a high tech evidence collector. Sounds good, right? Well, w ...