Medicine

Here’s a list of some favorite episodes, curated by The Pulse team members themselves.

We explore the history and future of reproductive technologies and the thorny questions that arise around women’s bodies, fertility, and having children.  

Insurance companies pay in lump sums instead of per patient, so rural hospitals can afford to keep patients from getting sick in the first place.

The state says the regulations will cut down on health-care costs, but many physicians are concerned they could harm patient care.

There's more to being a good doctor than providing medical care to your patients. Sometimes that lesson comes at the darkest time of year.

The Listening Lab will tour Penn Medicine’s hospitals to encourage compassionate listening.

For many Americans, hallucinogens still evoke the psychedelic '60s, bringing to mind the sex-and-drugs lifestyle of the hippie counterculture.

Thanksgiving leftovers are a distant memory, and December's extra travel, shopping and family commitments are already straining nerves, budgets and immune systems.

Philadelphia Academic Health System says it won’t pay former doctors’ medical malpractice insurance. Its Chapter 11 filing is at risk, under judge’s order.

The Federal Trade Commission and European regulators cleared Roche's proposed $4.3 billion purchase of Spark Therapeutics.

Ann Jones tried everything short of surgery for her chronic migraines, which have plagued her since she was a child.

With so-called “tail coverage” for their time spent at the now-shuttered hospital set to expire in January, the doctors enlisted state and legal help.

When students in wilderness EMT Alice Henshaw's training courses grab practice dummies for CPR drills, they have their choice of traditional or different training.

Dentistry can be a lucrative career, but some say rising tuition costs mean massive loans to pay off in a changing market for care.

On a good day in the emergency room where we work, patients might expect to wait four or five hours, including evaluation and treatment before they are sent upstairs to a bed.