Who has time to read the small print — to go over all the “stuff” that’s in our food, medicine, or supplements? And what’s carr ...

Advances in science don’t just happen — sometimes, real progress requires heroic measures. On this show, we explore the lengths peopl ...

Medicine, healthcare — even illness — vary from country to country. Those differences are driven by tradition, culture, even politics ...

Technology helps us run our lives, do our jobs, get directions and keep track of our calendars. Right? Or, is technology taking control o ...

They call it the golden years, but there’s a reason many of us dread old age — it can mean losing our health, our independence, our m ...

It’s been a year since Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico, destroying lives and reducing many communities to rubble. The storm a ...

It’s Labor Day, which means we’re celebrating the hard-working people who keep the engines of productivity humming. On this e ...

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

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

We think of sports as part of a healthy lifestyle — a chance to move our muscles, work up a sweat, release endorphins. Often that’s t ...

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 ...

As drug overdose deaths continue to soar, cities hit hard by the opioid crisis are considering a controversial new proposal: safe injecti ...