The Pulse Episode Archive

The Veterans Administration is comprised of 320,000 employees, 971 hospitals, and a $165 billion budget all designed to serve some nine-m ...

Long ago doctors visited the sick, instead of the other way around. Around the time of the Civil War, doctors made 30 to 40 house calls p ...

On this special edition of The Pulse, we take a close look at waiting, from medical offices to a local produce market and a research lab. ...

The Philadelphia region is a hub for the pharmaceutical industry. In fact, some of the drugs that have transformed medicine have been dev ...

When you consider the sizeable challenges faced by Camden, N.J.—poverty, drugs, and “white flight”—it may seem hard to be ...

What do we mean when we say that a patient is “brain dead”? Surprisingly few medical students can answer that question, so a ...

When we think about women drinking too much, many of us conjure mental images of Girls Gone Wild, college parties, and Hollywood starlets ...

A happy marriage, children, a good life…then illness changes everything. Sixty-five million Americans care for an ill or elderly lo ...

In the lead up to the Affordable Care Act enrollment deadline, we spoke with folks researching plans and trying to decide what level of c ...

We all want our doctors to be sharp as a tack, laser accurate, and confident enough to trust themselves with our lives. But we also want ...

 Allow us to reintroduce ourselves… This week on The Pulse, we r ...

What can our genes tell us about our health risks?  This week on The Pulse, we take a look at the prospects and possibilities of pre ...

On today’s show… we wait. We’ll wait at doctor’s offices, we’ll sit with patients who are waiting for organ ...

Where do you get your weather forecasts? TV news channels?  Maybe you use the web? Or the local paper? The Farmers Almanac? No matte ...

We often think of trauma as the result of a singular negative experience, but many, who spend their entire lives in environments plagued ...