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Reevaluating Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: How Vascular EDS Patients Are Left Behind

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The Role Health PLAYED in the Election

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Rapunzel Wasn’t Simply in a Castle; It’s a Psychiatric Syndrome

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Dense Breasts: The Hidden Risk You Can’t Ignore

Michael Hunter, MD -

America at a Climate Crossroads: The Stark Choices Ahead

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The Role of Pediatric Hexavalent Vaccines to Leave No Child Behind on Pertussis and Polio Protection

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Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

As AI and LLMs Supercharge Digital Health Possibilities – Here Are Medika’s Top 20 ’24 Influential Voices to Follow

Prof Dolores Cahill is the Latest Quack to Commit Career Suicide

A Stunningly Bad Study Claims Social Media Devastates Teen Girls’ Mental Health

Marjorie Taylor Green Needs a Primer on How Birth Control Works

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Reevaluating Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: How Vascular EDS Patients Are Left Behind

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor -

The Role Health PLAYED in the Election

The Role of Pediatric Hexavalent Vaccines to Leave No Child Behind on Pertussis and Polio Protection

Rapunzel Wasn’t Simply in a Castle; It’s a Psychiatric Syndrome

Pat Farrell PhD -

Dense Breasts: The Hidden Risk You Can’t Ignore

Michael Hunter, MD -

America at a Climate Crossroads: The Stark Choices Ahead

Christopher Nial -

The Ripple Effect of War: Conflict is Shattering the Ukrainian Public Health System

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor -

Springfield, Ohio: How Candidates Amplify Misinformation

Toward a Sustainable Future: Collective Action, Innovation, and Governance

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Netflix Can Wait, Your Heart Can’t

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HEALTHCARE

The Role Health PLAYED in the Election

The Role of Pediatric Hexavalent Vaccines to Leave No Child Behind on Pertussis and Polio Protection

Is Technology Reinforcing the Very Essence of “Sick Care?”

Forget Hype – Digital Therapeutic Data Show the Category Can be Held to High Clinical Standards

Infection Control, Physicians’ Offices, and Our Health May Be in Serious Jeopardy

India’s Pivotal Regulatory Shift: A Possible Game-Changer in Expediting Medicines to Millions in Dire Need

As AI and LLMs Supercharge Digital Health Possibilities – Here Are Medika’s Top 20 ’24 Influential Voices to Follow

Hospital Managers, Medical Decisions, and Patients’ Need to Know

Two Titans Tap Cognitive Powers to Unleash Humanity’s Great Potential

AI Chat GPT GenAI

Reversing the Doctor Drain

JUST FOR WOMEN

Health & Pregnancy

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

What are seizures?

Top 13 Ways to Cut Dementia

A Cycling Accident Saved My Life

A Guide for Men to Become Champions of Support for Endometriosis

Don’t Crystal Ball Patients’ Futures – AI Delivers Accuracy Right Now

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

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Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

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

Dr. Susan Love: A Legacy of Empathy and Empowerment in Medicine

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

If Gambling Is a Damaging Addiction, States Should Cease Lotteries

Pat Farrell PhD - July 2, 2024

States run lotteries, offering winners multimillions, and then turning around and offering gambling rehab programs is a contradictory process.

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

September 6, 2022

Strength Training and Sleep

March 6, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

On the Origin of Covid. With Apologies to Darwin

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - January 19, 2023

Where did the SARS-COV-2 virus originate? Was it artificial and unintentionally escaped its laboratory confines? Was it released intentionally?

Grassroots success: Community Initiatives Transforming Public Health

August 18, 2024

The Social Innovation Summit: Catalyzing Societal Change

June 2, 2024

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EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Medika Life - June 3, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Hysteroscopic Polypectomy by learning more about what the procedure entails.

Preparing for: Abdominal Hysterectomy

November 1, 2020

Preparing for: Midurethral Sling

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Exponential Innovation: Disrupting The Disruptor

John Nosta - January 5, 2022

Today's world of disruptive change is defined by two terms: innovation and speed. The big idea is important, but equally so is the path that innovation...

Want to Drink Less Alcohol?

Michael Hunter, MD - January 16, 2022

WHILE I AM NOT ONE TO MAKE New Year’s resolutions, I know that many of you make them to improve their health and better their...

Long Telomeres and Long Life: Did We Get It Wrong? (Hint: Yes)

Michael Hunter, MD - July 25, 2023

ARE LONG TELOMERES THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH? Telomeres are structures made from DNA sequences and proteins at the ends of our chromosomes. Telomeres cap and...

Alzheimer’s Long Road

Pat Farrell PhD - August 5, 2020

Alzheimer’s is only one dementia, and there are many others, currently about ten types. The problem is in identifying the individual’s precise dementia and treating it appropriately.

HEALTHY MINDS

Rapunzel Wasn’t Simply in a Castle; It’s a Psychiatric Syndrome

October 14, 2024

The Ripple Effect of War: Conflict is Shattering the Ukrainian Public Health System

September 27, 2024

Netflix Can Wait, Your Heart Can’t

September 27, 2024

Fire Up the Power of Art Therapies Against Stress and Help Yourself

September 27, 2024

LLMs as a Modern Partner in Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development

September 24, 2024

Love’s Not So Simple, and the Complexity Is Mindboggling

September 22, 2024

Stop Owning a Cancer Diagnosis

September 22, 2024

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

Ivermectin is Dead and Buried Despite NIH Website Misstep and Twitter Buzz

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - September 1, 2022

Ivermectin is a global con, sold by unscrupulous doctors and healthcare professionals as a treatment for Covid. It doesn't work.

These Vaccinated Groups are Still at Risk of Severe Covid, UK Study Finds

October 7, 2021

Getting the Story Straight on PCR…

May 17, 2021

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

Reevaluating Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: How Vascular EDS Patients Are Left Behind

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - October 21, 2024

EDS Subtyping May Not Be a Harmless Convention, But a Recipe for Patient Danger

The Ripple Effect of War: Conflict is Shattering the Ukrainian Public Health System

September 27, 2024

Netflix Can Wait, Your Heart Can’t

September 27, 2024

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - May 17, 2021

Reiner Fuellmich is attempting the same thing he accuses the world of, massive deception, His Covid misinformation and con are intentional and

Roby Mitchell (Dr. Fitt) on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 23, 2020

Debunking Nicholas Wade’s Origin of COVID Conspiracy Theory

May 29, 2021