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Can We Dare to Think about an End to AIDS?

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The Defining Dance Between Empathy and GenAI in Health

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Sheba Medical Center Selects Two Digital Startups for Integration into Newly Expanded Rehabilitation Ward

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The Vital Reflection: How Large Language Models Hold a Mirror to Humanity

OPINION & IMPACT
HEALTHCARE

The Defining Dance Between Empathy and GenAI in Health

Sheba Medical Center Selects Two Digital Startups for Integration into Newly Expanded Rehabilitation Ward

Benchmark KFF Survey: Annual Family Premiums for Employer Coverage Rise 7% to Nearly $24,000 in 2023

Health Insurance

Is Getting COVID Shots in the Same Arm Better?

Richard Roundtree, Star of “Shaft,” Is Dead at 81. What You Should Know About His Cancer.

Feds Rein In Use of Predictive Software That Limits Care for Medicare Advantage Patients

HLTH2023 is Packed as 10,000 Attendees Fill the Halls – Special Attention on Israel

Mothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not?

When It Comes to the Future of HLTH – Life Is Not a Las Vegas Roulette Wheel

The Cognitive Renaissance: How Technology is Recalibrating Our Minds and Revitalizing Our Workplaces

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6,944,994

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129,468,677

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JUST FOR WOMEN

Health & Pregnancy

Does Botox Drop Anxiety?

Aspirin. Your Heart’s Best Friend, or Maybe Not

Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

Mothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not?

Flipping the Script on Cancer Prevention

8 Habits That Might Add Decades to Your Life

Beat Vaginal Dryness and Painful Intercourse. 8 Tips for Better Lubrication

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

KEEP IN TOUCH

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Trump’s America. Deride Them, But They are Better Than You

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Health Care and Its Deadly Biases Toward Women

The First 28 Days. Infant Mortality’s Dead Zone

The Quack Scale

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

Video of Jordon Walker, Supposed Pfizer Researcher, Goes Viral

The Quack Scale

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Pfizer Confirms mRNA Vaccine Never Tested for Preventing COVID Transmission

The Quack Scale

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MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

Learning to Develop Hope Is Within Your Reach

Pat Farrell PhD - May 17, 2023

Life throws curve balls at us, and we’re not always prepared for them, but we can learn to be more resilient and hopeful.

Is Social Media to Be Trusted for Health Information?

August 12, 2022

Surprises in the Authorship of a Paper About MDMA to Treat PTSD

June 2, 2021

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Climate Change Has an Underbelly Few Are Considering

Pat Farrell PhD - March 6, 2022

I was fortunate enough to attend a session by Robert Frost many years ago in Lennox, MA, where he read one of his famous...

Schools May Foul the Drinking Water, Endanger and Damage Children

May 7, 2021

Climate Services and Public Health: Insights from the WMO 2023 Report

November 8, 2023

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Vaginal Hysterectomy

Macarthur Medical Center - October 27, 2020

A vaginal hysterectomy is a minimally invasive technique to remove the uterus. Vaginal hysterectomy is a minimally invasive surgery that benefits patients by having only a vaginal incision, shorter hospital stay, faster recovery, reduced pain, and a shorter hospital stay.

Preparing for: Midurethral Sling

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

January 20, 2021

DISEASES

Sweet or Sinister: Unveiling the Real Story of Aspartame and Cancer

Michael Hunter, MD - August 11, 2023

IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR SWEETENERS a potential cancer-causing agent? According to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), aspartame is a threat....

Primary Care for the Sickest of the Sick

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - September 9, 2022

Comprehensive Care Improves Health Yet Reduces Total Costs

Reckoning or Opportunity?

Richard Hatzfeld - February 22, 2023

How America’s pharmaceutical industry can help prevent an erosion of the U.S. healthcare system.

Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Make a Plan Now

Pat Farrell PhD - January 1, 2023

The New Year brings challenges and opportunities, and we need to plan ways to handle both.

HEALTHY MINDS

Trauma Transfer May Be Possible, But Is It Probable?

November 28, 2023

Sheba Medical Center Selects Two Digital Startups for Integration into Newly Expanded Rehabilitation Ward

November 28, 2023

Laughing Is A Scientifically Proven Stress Solution

November 17, 2023

The Vital Reflection: How Large Language Models Hold a Mirror to Humanity

November 17, 2023

The Role of AI in Human Well-being and Mental Health: Exploring Two Crucial Dimensions

November 14, 2023

War Tears Children Apart in Invisible, Prolonged Ways Into Their Futures

November 8, 2023

Is Hearing Imaginary Voices a Childhood Hold-over, Psychosis or Normal?

October 29, 2023

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

Dr. Steven Quay to Brief U.S. Congress On Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Medika Life - May 21, 2021

Dr. Stephen Quay is scheduled to tell Congress that a laboratory in Wuhan was the most likely place for the origin of Covid.. His research, published in January

Aspirin. Your Heart’s Best Friend, or Maybe Not

October 13, 2021

How Medika’s Quack Scale Works

November 15, 2020

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

Can We Dare to Think about an End to AIDS?

Mark Chataway - December 1, 2023

What would my 23-year-old self have made of my 63-year-old self moderating a session on the end of AIDS as a public health threat...

Gene Expression Changes in Heart Cells: A New Threat to Astronaut Health?

October 29, 2023

Why I Stopped Taking Fish Oil

October 18, 2023

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Dr. Edgar Suter on Medika’s Quack Scale

Medika Life - December 2, 2020

Dr. Edgar Suter scores 4 out of 5 on Medika's Quack Scale. We recommend seeking alternate medical care for a trustworthy and reputable source.

Scott Atlas on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 16, 2020

Worshiping at The Alter of Zach Bush’s Messianic Health Cult

May 15, 2021