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These days, Tonia Hsieh is in charge of her own lab full of eager science students, but when she was an undergrad, she found herself delv ...

For more than a decade, Aaron Beck and Martin Seligman have been meeting in Beck’s high-rise apartment located right in the center ...

We sent our least touchy-feely journalist to visit “The Hugging Saint”. When Amma comes to town, people line up—and ...

Rick Rothrock: Carved In Stone Produced by Karen Smyles Rick Rothrock was born into a two-generation famil ...

WHYY’s health and science show, The Pulse, was recognized with two awards from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI). Th ...

Produced by Karen Smyles The Chester County Historical Society (CCHS) inspires, informs, and builds community ident ...

The company is under scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Food and Drug Administration, largely due to reporting ...

From nylon to next-generation fabrics, the research lab always precedes the runway.  For thousands of years, we humans donned ...

Half the money and none of the respect, a first-year resident says no wonder new doctors aren’t choosing to be generalists. ...

Philadelphia’s new soda tax, signed into law this week, is a major victory for public health advocates. Bottled Coke, Pepsi, iced t ...

Researchers at a University of Pennsylvania dermatology lab were running a cancer study when they noticed that sex hormones were affectin ...

Produced by Monica Rogozinski Amanda Feifer, author of “Ferment Your Vegetables,” explains how she came to ador ...

The horrific mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando has heightened conversations about guns, hate crimes, and terrorism. ...

A mom, a daughter, a disease, and time. Liz Buvinger admits she can be a bit of a “planner”—even a Type A personalit ...

We’ve come a long way from the days when mental hospitals, like England’s notorious “Bedlam”, doubled as carnival ...