The Pulse Episode Archive

Chances are, in all your visits to the doctor, you’ve been helped, at least once, by a physician assistant, or PA. As new patients ...

Usually, when we talk about climate change, we’re talking about things that might or might not happen 50 or 100 years from now. But ...

Fifteen seconds. That’s all it took to raze a 16-story public housing high-rise in Philadelphia last weekend. Only an implosion—a ...

Scientists hold the keys to our future, though few of them succeed at holding our attention long when they’re discussing their work ...

Scientists from Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia have just named a brand-new dinosaur—they dubbed ...

In the fight against obesity, public health officials, the government and doctors are trying all kinds of things. In Philadelphia, they ...

You know the feeling…you’re trying to come up with a witty line, a clever metaphor, a song, a poem…and nothing. The har ...

Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic blood disorder that affects about 100,000 people in the United States—mostly of African descent—maki ...

A couple decades ago, women going through menopause were prescribed hormone replacement, but questions over the safety of that therapy ha ...

The Pulse goes to the beach… Our first stop is Rockaway Beach, New York, where a group of surfers met last weekend to catch ...

Mindfulness meditation is becoming as popular as yoga. It’s the practice of being present in the moment, to really pay attention to ...

The word “cure” is one we don’t hear mu ...

Several weeks ago, the government adjusted its estimate o ...

The Philadelphia region is a hub for the pharmaceutical i ...

We all hate discussing death…even doctors avoid it, focusing instead on treatment option after treatment option. Because of this, m ...