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Children's skulls in the Penn Museum collection, collected from many eras and locations, trace changes in human dentition. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Could old skulls help us understand why we have crooked teeth?

Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth. ...

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Richard Pell, of the Center for PostNatural History, in Pittsburgh with his genetically modified goat, Freckles. (Irina Zhorov/The Pulse)
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Science

A natural history museum questions what ‘natural’ means

In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m ...

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The age-old question of old age

Explaining in a 2014 article in The A ...

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Kirk Johnson, the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, in front of a display case in his office. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

It’s ‘game on’ for the man in charge of 145 million specimens

It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...

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Science

Diorama dilemma: The art and science of museum displays

A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.

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David Wilson
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Trading pill bottles for yoga mats doesn’t always fly with patients

The way physicians assess and treat pain has come under scrutiny recently, as the country continues to experience an epidemic of opioid a ...

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The Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale (Courtesy of Wong-Baker) was developed in the pediatric hospital setting by a pediatric nurse consultant and a child life specialist 30 years ago in Oklahoma. Children helped design it
The Pulse

Reassessing the assessment of pain: how the numeric scale became so popular in health care

It’s an experience that most everyone has had at a doctor or hospital visit, where at some point, usually early on, the question ...

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 Talyah Basit attends the suicide-prevention conference at the War Memorial in Trenton. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse

After student suicides, medical schools look for changes

Following the death of her son, Michele Dietl remembers not being able to walk through the grocery store.  “I co ...

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Counter Culture Labs looks like what would happen if your high school science and art classes were held together in the same space. (Andrew Stelzer/for WHYY)
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Ragtag group of non-scientists tries to break up monopoly on insulin

Tired of paying too much for common prescription drugs? Ever wish you could just head into the kitchen and make medicine yourself? ...

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Kurt Fristrup
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Looking for peace and quiet? There’s a map for that.

With fall on the horizon, maybe you’re hoping to find some peace and quiet in the great outdoors. Where you find it can be a challe ...

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Mohammed Nayeemudin is a internal medicine resident at Temple University in Philadelphia. (Courtesy of Mohammed Nayeemudin)
The Pulse

Doctor tells tale of losing a patient, and what Katy Perry had to do with it

Mohammed Nayeemudin was working in the ICU when he got a call from the emergency room — a 30 year old who had been found in his apartme ...

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Harry Levant (right) leaves court with his defense attorney Trevan Borum. (Bobby Allyn/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

After dodging jail in theft of $2M, lawyer back in court for lagging on restitution

When a botched medical procedure left Donna Johnson a double amputee, she sold her three-story brick home in Philadelphia and bought a mo ...

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Carl Van Horn
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Rutgers survey: Americans finally have confidence in the job market

Recent national survey results offer optimism regarding American attitudes about the job market. Carl Van Horn, professor of publi ...

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Steve McCurry: Unguarded, Untold, Iconic; The Privy Diggers; Heyne Bogut

Steve McCurry: Unguarded, Untold, Iconic Producer: Karen Smyles Friday Arts goes to the Mich ...

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A patient gets a blood test. (Maiken Scott/WHYY)
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If a patient doesn’t get a test, does it make a sound?

What responsibility do doctors have for following up on tests they order? I recently went to see a specialist who ruled out a heal ...

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