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Study Reveals Staggering Toll of Being Black in America: 1.6M Excess Deaths Over 22 Years

Does Artificial Intelligence (#AI) Chatbot Outperform Physicians in Patient Experience?

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Is the Covid Vaccine’s Spike Protein Killing Us?

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Hidden Risks: Unveiling the Dark Side of Sunscreen

Michael Hunter, MD -

COP28 and Dubai – Perfect Together or a Looming Disaster?

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor -

New Research Clarifies Cause of Myocarditis After mRNA Vaccine

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa -

How Can We Address Increasing Violence Against Healthcare Personnel?

Pat Farrell PhD -

Study Reveals Staggering Toll of Being Black in America: 1.6M Excess Deaths Over 22 Years

Does Artificial Intelligence (#AI) Chatbot Outperform Physicians in Patient Experience?

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor -

Learning to Develop Hope Is Within Your Reach

Pat Farrell PhD -

Contact Lenses and Cancer: Is There a Connection?

Michael Hunter, MD -

Unravelling the Dangers of mRNA With Genomics

Robert Turner, Founding Editor -

CDC Members Prove to Themselves the Pandemic Isn’t Over

Pat Farrell PhD -

OPINION & IMPACT
HEALTHCARE

COP28 and Dubai – Perfect Together or a Looming Disaster?

New Research Clarifies Cause of Myocarditis After mRNA Vaccine

How Can We Address Increasing Violence Against Healthcare Personnel?

Is GPT Digital Health’s Inflection Point?

Psychedelics and Mental Health

From The Appeals Desk: Brevity Beware

Policy and Practice

#HIMSS23 Brings Renewed Energy to the Global Health Information Table

Was Covid Testing Used to Harvest Your DNA?

You Can Use Gardening As Exercise

#HIMSS23 on the Health-Sector Digital and Information Mainstage With Wind in its Sails

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JUST FOR WOMEN

Health & Pregnancy

A Molar Pregnacy or Hydatidiform Mole

Preparing for: Endometrial Ablation

Pregnancy Due Date Calculator

The First 28 Days. Infant Mortality’s Dead Zone

The Gender Pay Gap Has Mental Health Implications

Testosterone therapy: Does it Work for Women?

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

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

KEEP IN TOUCH

The Medika Life Top 30 Voices Transforming Wellness for 2022/23

10 Top Tips to Drop Your Breast Cancer Risk

Avoiding Drug-Induced Weight Gain: A Little Awareness Goes a Long Way

Got Hot Flashes? You Might Want to Try This Diet

Hair Straightening and Cancer — What Oncologists Want You to Know

Women Suffer Because of Medical Misinformation About Debilitating Menstrual Pain

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

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

Pfizer Confirms mRNA Vaccine Never Tested for Preventing COVID Transmission

The Quack Scale

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

MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

Puberty and the Age of Consent. When Should “Yes” Be No!

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - February 13, 2023

Consent is far more than agreeing - it's understanding and trusting. Sometimes, to suggest consent is to condone psychological manipulation.

A Vignette of Life as a Pediatric Cancer Mom

March 16, 2022

Combating Loneliness Is Everyone’s Job

December 19, 2021

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Global Wellness Summit Charts $4.4 Trillion Sector Impacting Longevity

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - November 6, 2022

The Global Wellness Summit Charts the $4.4 trillion sector that Impacts Longevity. Wellness – It’s No Longer Just Nuts, Granola, Spas and Yoga

Lung Cancer: It’s Not Just Cigarettes.

April 19, 2021

Why Your Breast Milk May Already Be Too Toxic For Your Child

May 13, 2021

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Colposcopy

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 25, 2020

Our Preparing for series allows a patient to properly prepare themselves for a procedure. Answers about how long the procedure will last, what’s involved, what to expect

Preparing for: Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

January 20, 2021

Preparing for: Vaginal Hysterectomy

October 27, 2020

DISEASES

Obesity: Do Men and Women Have Different Brains?

Michael Hunter, MD - April 23, 2023

NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT OBESITY affects the brain in sex-dependent ways. Specific brain parts appear different when we compare males and females with high body mass indexes.

How You Can Use Hiking to Burn Calories

Michael Hunter, MD - January 2, 2022

111 MILLION. THAT’S THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS who walk for fitness. But what about hiking? Do you regularly go on hiking adventures? Walking and hiking...

Should You Rest or Keep Going When You Have Chronic Pain?

Anna Holtzman - April 20, 2022

Pain is a danger signal that your nervous system sends when it feels unsafe. So should you obey the danger signal and stop what you’re doing?

Twitter’s Decision to Stand-down on COVID Misinformation Highlights a New Symptom — “Trust Deregulation”

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - November 30, 2022

If Twitter and Elon Musk Fail and Fall, Who Will Celebrate? Twitter and COVID misinformation monitoring.

HEALTHY MINDS

How Can We Address Increasing Violence Against Healthcare Personnel?

May 22, 2023

Study Reveals Staggering Toll of Being Black in America: 1.6M Excess Deaths Over 22 Years

May 21, 2023

Learning to Develop Hope Is Within Your Reach

May 17, 2023

Psychedelics and Mental Health

May 4, 2023

The Phobia That Turns Sleep Into Terror Time

April 25, 2023

When College Athletes Kill Themselves, Healing the Team Becomes the Next Goal

April 16, 2023

Do Your Relationships Need To Change in Order for You To Heal?

April 16, 2023

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

How My Breast Cancer Providers Have Compromised My Life

Christina Vaughn - October 4, 2021

Being poor can get you killed. A damning indictment of breast cancer Providers from a Medicaid survivor of a double mastectomy.

The Facts About Fetal Cells and Covid Vaccines Explained

May 7, 2021

Why Your Breast Milk May Already Be Too Toxic For Your Child

May 13, 2021

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

Obesity: Do Men and Women Have Different Brains?

Michael Hunter, MD - April 23, 2023

NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT OBESITY affects the brain in sex-dependent ways. Specific brain parts appear different when we compare males and females with high body mass indexes.

Was Covid Testing Used to Harvest Your DNA?

April 17, 2023

Heart Disease and Depression

April 14, 2023

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Zach Bush, MD on Medika’s Quack Scale

Medika Life - January 4, 2021

Zach Bush, MD scores 5 out of 5 on Medika's Quack Scale. Bush has become the poster boy for alternate/complementary health and mixes pseudoscience and mystical mumbo-jumbo with his own brand of traditional medicine

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

May 17, 2021

Dr. Edgar Suter on Medika’s Quack Scale

December 2, 2020