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Cystic fibrosis patient Jacob Jaramillo taking his first dose of Trikafta. Trikafta costs $360,000 a year per patient, a big price the Canadian government has hesitated to approve. (Courtesy of Jacob Jaramillo)
The Pulse
Health

Canada has universal health coverage. So why is a new ‘miracle drug’ so hard to get?

Trikafta costs $360,000 a year per cystic fibrosis patient, a big price the government has hesitated to approve.

4 years ago

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Hahnemann Hospital windows are decorated by employees as the hospital prepares to close. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

How Philadelphia escaped disaster in the face of a dozen shuttered maternity wards

Births are a high-risk, low-return part of the health business. The city’s hospitals rallied together a decade ago. Is a new challenge ahead?

4 years ago

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Amari Gilmore (second from the right) and her extended family. (Photo courtesy of Amari Gilmore)
The Pulse
Science

For African Americans, DNA tests offer some answers beyond the ‘wall of slavery’

For decades, slavery created challenges for Black Americans trying to trace their roots. DNA ancestry tests might reveal new answers.

4 years ago

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(Photo credit Jon Chu)
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Arts & Entertainment

Quiara Alegria Hudes’ memoir ‘My Broken Language’

Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes on her new memoir about growing up in Philadelphia in a Puerto Rican and Jewish family among a sea of languages and finding her voice.

4 years ago

Sean Brown (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) as an infant with his great-grandmother, Mable Brown (Mama-on), who would tell him countless stories about the people he came from. (Photo courtesy of Sean Brown)
The Pulse
Health

Sacred tobacco and American Indians, tradition and conflict

American Indians have the highest smoking rates in the country: US commercialization of tobacco continues to complicate sacred use of the plant.

4 years ago

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A drawing of the ITER tokamak and integrated plant systems shows the complexity of the ITER facility now under construction in France. (Wikimedia Commons)
The Pulse
Science

A fusion experiment promised to be the next step in solving humanity’s energy crisis. It’s a big claim to live up to

How close are scientists to developing fusion energy? And what are the roadblocks standing in the way?

4 years ago

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FILE- In this file photo made May 26, 2010, people look over the battery array of an all-electric Nissan Leaf in Smyrna, Tenn. Nissan North America, Inc. held its ground-breaking ceremony Wednesday for a lithium-ion battery plant as part of its plan to start building electric cars and eventually create up to 1,300 jobs in Tennessee. The auto industry calls it range anxiety: Drivers want electric cars but worry they won't have enough juice to make long trips. After all, what good is going green if you get stranded with a dead battery? It's a fear that automakers must overcome as they push to sell more battery-powered cars. So government and business are taking steps to reassure drivers by building up the nation's network of electric charging stations. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
The Pulse
Science

Why it’s so hard to replace a Nissan LEAF battery

Years of research powered electric car batteries, yet questions remain to be answered.

4 years ago

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Emily Smith, an epidemiologist married to a preacher, has been able to reach evangelicals in a way others can’t, by meeting them where they are. (Courtesy of Emily Smith)
The Pulse
Health

How a Christian epidemiologist works to sway white evangelicals on COVID and vaccines

Emily Smith, an epidemiologist married to a preacher, has been able to reach evangelicals in a way others can’t, by meeting them where they are.

4 years ago

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For years, sufferers of EHS have maintained that the electromagnetic fields around us are dangerous. A handful of scientists agree. (Sangoiri/ Big Stock Photo)
The Pulse
Health

Science vs science: The contradictory fight over whether electromagnetic hypersensitivity is real

For years, sufferers of EHS have maintained that the electromagnetic fields around us are dangerous. A handful of scientists agree.

4 years ago

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Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (second from the right) is famous for his audacious cons, documented in the blockbuster movie “Catch Me If You Can.” But science writer Alan Logan says the real grift is Abagnale’s entire life story. (Rene Macura/AP Photo)
The Pulse
Arts & Entertainment

Could this famous conman be lying about his story? A new book suggests he is

Frank W. Abagnale Jr. is famous for cons documented in the blockbuster “Catch Me If You Can.” But science writer Alan Logan says the real grift is Abagnale’s entire story.

4 years ago

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Adnan Khan (middle) spent 16 years of his life in California prisons until he was released in 2019 under a re-sentencing bill he helped create while behind bars. Now he's an advocate on behalf of incarcerated people. (Courtesy of Adnan Khan)
The Pulse
Health

40% of incarcerated people have chronic conditions — how good is the health care they get behind bars?

A large proportion of incarcerated people have their chronic conditions diagnosed while in prison. But experts say quality care can be hard to get.

4 years ago

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Dawn Harrington helps families stay connected when a relative is incarcerated through classes and support groups. “It’s somewhat kind of like a grieving lost, like somebody dies,” she says. “Because it is, in some ways, that level of separation.” (Courtesy of Dawn Harrington)
The Pulse
Health

Incarceration touches millions with loved ones behind bars. And it’s making many of them sick

The stress of supporting a family member in prison can cause lasting health issues for those on the outside. Consequences can stretch far beyond the person doing the time.

4 years ago

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A series of brain scan images against a black background. Brain scans showing MRI mapping for 3 tasks across 2 different days. Warm colors show how the results hold up in groups. Cool colors show how results are less reliable person to person. Photo credit: Annchen Knodt/Duke University.
The Pulse
Science

Scientists have used fMRI to study brain activity for years. Now, some question the results’ reliability

Scientists have found that results can change, brain scans from the same person doing the same thing can be different a week or a month later.

4 years ago

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OHSU School of Medicine student Mollie Marr stands in front of a whiteboard holding a laptop. She helps organize a letter-writing campaign for students to share personal stories about the impact of losing a proposed tax waiver for tuition for graduate students, December 1, 2017. Marr is pursuing her M.D. and her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience in the OHSU School of Medicine, and losing the tax waiver could mean dropping out of OHSU. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
The Pulse
Health

Should medical schools require a standardized test for admission?

The MCAT is supposed to gauge future success. But it can also be a financial barrier to underrepresented groups.

4 years ago

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The goal seemed pretty clear cut, to enroll a medical school class containing at least 3,000 students of color by the year 2000. Why did it fail? (MicroOne / Big Stock Photo)
The Pulse
Health

3000 by 2000: A history of the visionary campaign to diversify med schools, and what got in its way

The goal seemed pretty clear cut, to enroll a medical school class containing at least 3,000 students of color by the year 2000. Why did it fail?

4 years ago

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