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HEALTHCARE

Toward a Healthcare Singularity

Healthcare Policy and Opinion

Policies and Policing Didn’t Stem Opioid Abuse – Can Tech Be A Solution?

Unearth Your Medical Records And Be Prepared For Surprises

Vaccination Roundup — What You Should Know

Patient Satisfaction Surveys Earn a Zero on Tracking Whether Hospitals Deliver Culturally Competent Care

Primary Care for the Sickest of the Sick

The Ruthless Monster That Is Sepsis

Prevention-as-a-Service: A Business Model that Can Fix Healthcare

Should You Stick with Your Regimen or Switch Gears?

Polio/Covid Planning, the Poor, Life and Mobility

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JUST FOR WOMEN

Health & Pregnancy

Is Sex Safe During the Covid-19 pandemic?

We All Have Pain

Lupus and its effects on women

Is There an Effective Time of Day to Take Your Medication or Not?

Medical Buddhism

Managing Menopause-Related Weight Gain

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

Five Things Your Nipples May be Trying to Tell You

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It’s not an urban legend: Losing weight is often harder for women

3-D Mammograms — Worth It?

Which Women’s Health Conditions Affect Men?

8 Tips to Solve Vaginal Dryness and Overcome Painful Intercourse

“Deaf” Physicians’ Failure to Listen to Seriously Ill Patients

Forget the G Spot — Here’s the C Spot

The Quack Scale

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

The Quack Scale

We Call Out Reiner Fuellmich as a Fraud. The Covid Conspirator Investigated

The Quack Scale

Fact-Checking Geert Vanden Bossche. Cashing in on Covid Misinformation

The Quack Scale

Zach Bush, MD on Medika’s Quack Scale

Exposing America’s Frontline Doctors and Their Financial Empire Built on Hydroxychloroquine

MENTAL

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Unspoken Emotional Distress and Its Role in Physical Illness

Pat Farrell PhD - March 20, 2022

Uncertain times can turn our lives into a whirlwind of confusion. Imagine what that must be like for children or young adults entering college....

Will a Stranger Act Altruistically and Save You From Harm?

July 17, 2022

As Eating Disorders Spike During Pandemic, Rural Treatment Options Lag

April 20, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

The Drink That Destroys Children’s Minds Forever

Pat Farrell PhD - December 16, 2021

We tell everyone to drink plenty of water each day, unaware of the damage contaminated water may be doing, especially to kids' brains.

Schools May Foul the Drinking Water, Endanger and Damage Children

May 7, 2021

How You Can Use Hiking to Burn Calories

January 2, 2022

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for Cesarean Delivery (C-Section)

Macarthur Medical Center - November 4, 2020

When the baby is delivered through an incision in the abdomen and uterus, it is called a cesarean section or C-section delivery. Information on the procedure

Preparing for: Laparoscopic Tubal Sterilization

June 3, 2020

Preparing for an Endometrial Biopsy

October 11, 2020

DISEASES

Primary Care for the Sickest of the Sick

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - September 9, 2022

Comprehensive Care Improves Health Yet Reduces Total Costs

Epilepsy

Medika Life - July 14, 2020

The epilepsies are a spectrum of brain disorders ranging from severe, life-threatening and disabling, to ones that are much more benign. In epilepsy, the normal pattern of neuronal activity becomes disturbed

Triglycerides and Their Influence on Your Heart Health

Medika Life - July 1, 2020

High blood triglycerides are high blood levels of a type of fat, or lipid, called triglycerides. Your body makes triglycerides or gets them from the foods you eat.

Anxiety as a symptom of Heart Attack

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa - December 9, 2020

Anxiety, in particular, anxiety disorders, enjoy a complex relationship with coronary health. There are studies and evidence to suggest that abnormal and continued levels of extreme anxiety can contribute to heart conditions

HEALTHY MINDS

An Honest Account of My Relationship With Painkillers

October 3, 2022

Why Healthcare Organizations Need to Be at the Forefront of Climate Change Activism

October 3, 2022

Is Grieving the Death of a Pet Silly and Abnormal?

October 3, 2022

Policies and Policing Didn’t Stem Opioid Abuse – Can Tech Be A Solution?

September 20, 2022

Pomp, Circumstance, Ritual, and Mourning a Queen Has Benefits

September 20, 2022

When A Healer Cannot Be Healed

September 17, 2022

Coffee, Sugar, and Mortality

September 15, 2022

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

The Facts About Fetal Cells and Covid Vaccines Explained

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - May 7, 2021

Fact checking the use of fetal cells in vaccines. Understanding how vaccines are manufactured and tested will help allay your fears about any risk from

How My Breast Cancer Providers Have Compromised My Life

October 4, 2021

You Don’t Need to be an Idiot to be a CovIdiot

September 25, 2021

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

A Business Approach To Reducing Healthcare Costs

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - October 3, 2022

Do It By Improving Employee Health — It Works! This is the 13th article in a series on America’s dysfunctional healthcare system.

Rethinking Cancer: We Think Too Narrowly

October 3, 2022

Feeling Anxious or Blue? Might Be Your Diet

September 12, 2022

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

How Medika’s Quack Scale Works

Medika Life - November 15, 2020

To help you sort out the schemers and con artists Medika has set up our own Quack Scale for you to easily and quickly identify healthcare professionals that pose a risk to your health and mental wellbeing.

Robert F Kennedy Jnr Appropriates Racism and Apartheid To Fuel Vaccine Fear

March 28, 2021

Dr. Edgar Suter on Medika’s Quack Scale

December 2, 2020