The Pulse Archive

We all know that it’s extremely rare for things to go according to plan. On this week’s show, we visit an island that is figh ...

To notify, or not to notify? Cindy Olmstead was about to have major surgery. She had found a cancerous lump in her breast and sche ...

When the water is unstoppable, just move, right? Every year the residents of Newtok, Alaska observe the two rivers surrounding the ...

A historic community on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay may be underwater in 50 to 100 years. With increasing competition for money ...

The obstetricians at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, California, had a choice to make: cut the number of C-sec ...

After Superstorm Sandy left the New Jersey coastline in ruins three years ago, residents and officials were left with two big questions. ...

Since 1901, only 49 women have received a Nobel Prize. This is the story of Gerty Cori, who fought to be recognized as an equal to her hu ...

Giving birth to a child for the first time is a big step into the unknown. You can prepare for it, do breathing exercises and take birthi ...

Nanotechnology is producing an all-in-one first aid kit.  For the past 95 years, Band-Aids have been the go-to treatment for ...

Doctors have a lot to keep up with as we learn more about the human body and develop brand new technologies that help advance medical car ...

One of the leaders of President Obama’s precision medicine initiative thinks so.  Eight-year-old Denaeyah Smith reads o ...

Diabetes often requires medication and serious lifestyle changes to manage, and making those changes usually takes support and education. ...

You go to the doctor, and he or she tells you what to do to best treat your ailment. When you go to the pharmacy to pick up your medicati ...

Dr. Vinaya Sermadevi sits in front of six screens at a call center in St. Louis, directing a nurse through a video conferencing system.&n ...

Turns out, doctors who look like us tend to help keep us healthier. So what does it mean when a particular racial segment of society prod ...