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An Ageing Population Underlines Need for New Strategies to Improve Uptake of Adult Pneumococcal Immunisation

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A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox

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HEALTHCARE

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A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox

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We Know the Health Ecosystem is Fragmented, Resulting in Rising Costs and Poorer Patient Outcomes, But What Are We Doing About It?

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Exclusive Medika Conversation with HIMSS Top Leadership – Inside Scoop on Key 2024 Priorities

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Galen Growth + ViVE 2024 Champion Digital Health Innovation as a Salve for an Ailing US Health Ecosystem

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Understanding the Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines: Insights from a Major International Study

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Psychiatry’s “Bible” Panel Comes Under Fire for Funding and Gifts

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Pursuing Happy Modernity: AI and Human Exploration in New Research-Based Tech

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Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

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The Top 10 Public Health Policy Issues for Election Year 2024

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Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

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Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

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8 Habits That Might Add Decades to Your Life

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

Why Improving Women’s Health Around the World is Urgent

Longer Breastfeeding Results in Better School Achievement: Why Might That Be?

Life Science Dominates Boston in June as BIO (and DHIS) Take Over Bean Town

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The Quack Scale

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

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Video of Jordon Walker, Supposed Pfizer Researcher, Goes Viral

The Quack Scale

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

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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 Agony and Numbness From Media War Coverage Generate Mental Aching, Why Watch?

Pat Farrell PhD - April 11, 2022

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood,...

Is Social Media to Be Trusted for Health Information?

August 12, 2022

Why Is There No True, Empathic Patient Engagement or Is There?”

May 19, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox

Medika Life - March 29, 2024

Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease’s twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning at the World Health...

A Business Approach To Reducing Healthcare Costs

October 3, 2022

Racism, It Turns Out, Kills Babies, Not Race

January 7, 2021

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

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: Laparoscopic Tubal Sterilization

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Robotic Hysterectomy

October 12, 2020

DISEASES

Preserving Health and Wellness and Preventing Chronic Diseases – America Does It Very Poorly

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - July 22, 2022

Assuring medical insurance for all Americans is an important goal, but it is far from sufficient to ensure we all get the best or even adequate care

New Alzheimer’s Drugs Will Worsen Inequality

Julian Willett, MD - August 17, 2023

Disclosure: I own a fraction of a share of Eli Lilly stock. We live in a very exciting time! Alzheimer’s medications that are more promising...

A Virus May Cause Multiple Sclerosis

Michael Hunter, MD - January 15, 2022

HARVARD RESEARCHERS MAY HAVE discovered the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS). This progressive disease affects 2.8 million individuals worldwide, and there is no cure. In the...

Life Science Dominates Boston in June as BIO (and DHIS) Take Over Bean Town

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - June 7, 2023

Health Pros Gather in Boston to Explore How Culture and Structure May Stall Needed Health System Changes

HEALTHY MINDS

Is “Whataboutism” Killing Empathy?

April 16, 2024

Smoke, Dip, or Pouch It and Suffer the Horrific Consequences?

April 16, 2024

From Skinner’s Operant Conditioning to Artificial Intelligence’s Algorithms

April 11, 2024

Guilt Is a Weapon, and We Need to Defend Ourselves

April 2, 2024

Surprising Connection Found: Missing Teeth At Birth Linked to Cancer Risk

March 18, 2024

Researchers Have Stepped Into the Weird World of Science Fiction

March 18, 2024

Updating Maslow’s Theory in the Ever-Evolving AI Era

March 13, 2024

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

Debunking Common Coronavirus and Covid Misconceptions, Myths, Lies, and Fairytales

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - April 12, 2021

Debunking Covid myths and conspiracies about masks, vaccines, PCR tests and more. A long list of misinformation rebutted. Want to help counter covid misinformation?

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

March 4, 2021

The Facts About Fetal Cells and Covid Vaccines Explained

May 7, 2021

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

Smoke, Dip, or Pouch It and Suffer the Horrific Consequences?

Pat Farrell PhD - April 16, 2024

Tobacco products have been proven to cause various cancers, but new nicotine-containing products are questionable, too.

HIMSS – Global Meeting Ground for Health Info Innovators to Secure Partnerships and Advance Care

March 4, 2024

Understanding the Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines: Insights from a Major International Study

February 25, 2024

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

America’s Frontline Doctors Want to Become the New Republic’s NIH

Medika Life - June 6, 2021

America's Frontline Doctors want you to call them now so they can prescribe dangerous medications based on a brief telehealth call, all for only $90

Kerri Rivera on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 22, 2020

Dr. Suzanne Humphries on Medika’s Quack Scale

December 5, 2020