
The Pulse Archive
Audio Time Capsule: The discovery of Legionnaires’ disease
Solving the mysteries of infectious diseases requires man power, determination, and, in the case of Legionnaires' disease, pride.
9 years ago
Listen 20:51Are low gas prices undermining environmentally friendly cars?
We just learned that 2015 was ...
9 years ago
ListenWhat makes a good or bad disease name?
Why was the medical condition “Wegener’s granulomatosis” renamed “granulomatosis with polyangiitis?” ...
9 years ago
ListenBuilding functional, fashionable exoskeletons for babies
A laboratory at the University of Delaware’s physical therapy department looks confusingly like a daycare center. There are ride-on ...
9 years ago
ListenHow can the NFL make football safer?
In 1905, President Teddy Roosevelt stepped in and saved football when it was plagued by severe injuries. Who will save it this time aroun ...
9 years ago
ListenNew mammogram guidelines: Why can’t we all just get along?
New mammogram guidelines were recently issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and, unsurprisingly, they have not bee ...
9 years ago
Of the women who find out they are carrying a baby who has Down Syndrome, 74 percent choose to terminate the pregnancy, according to one ...
Air Date: January 22, 2016
ListenWhere is the line between disease control and eugenics?
Prenatal genetic testing can empower expectant parents, but some are concerned that we may have access to more information than we can ha ...
9 years ago
ListenIn the wake of Flint, worrying about our water
Just like lead has leached into the water of homes in Flint, Michigan, the city’s water crisis has found it’s way on to the f ...
9 years ago
Listen‘The Hard Problem’: seeking science of consciousness
There are easy problems, and there are hard problems. Let’s get the easy one out of the way first. Understanding how the bra ...
9 years ago
ListenEast Coast poultry producers are on the hunt for bird flu
East coast poultry growers dodged the virus last year and they’re on high alert again. An outbreak of highly pathogenic av ...
9 years ago
ListenFighting Zika in Brazil by adding more mosquitos?
A new front opens in the war against the disease: genetically modified mosquitos. Under almost any other circumstance, Sarah Mota ...
9 years ago
ListenMeasuring the impact of prenatal genetic testing on Down Syndrome population
The thin woman wearing a big winter coat seems nervous, even though today, the news has been good. “I went to my first prena ...
9 years ago
ListenGenetic counselors face an explosion of new tests, and increased demand
A shortage means long wait times for some patients. The first time Erika Stallings’ mom had breast cancer, in the earl ...
9 years ago
ListenWe’ll take you from pages to pixels, through stories in the stacks, all to get a better idea about what the next chapter has in sto ...
Air Date: January 15, 2016
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