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

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

ENVIRON

Climate-proofing: How a Coney Island hospital rebuilt after Superstorm Sandy

By Gaea Cabico, a freelance reporter in New York. On the night Superstorm Sandy hit New York in October 2012, seawater from the Atlantic Ocean...

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

A loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) is a treatment to remove abnormal cervical cells to prevent cervical cancer.

DISEASES

Key Takeaways from the ARVO 2024 Annual Meeting – the Vision Science Community Gathers

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) holds an annual meeting that serves as the main forum for the vision science community...

Laugh and Learn to Live This Year

Laughter is one of those human behaviors that feels “light,” but it leaves measurable footprints in the body. Over the last 5 years, researchers...

Health Care and Its Deadly Biases Toward Women 

In 2020 in the U.S., the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, 2.9 times the rate for non-Hispanic White women.

Doctors Find Drug for Lethal Lung Disease After Decades of Trying

An international team of researchers reports in the New England Journal of Medicine dramatically transforming aPAP treatment by helping develop a drug that patients can inhale once a day so their body will clear out the pulmonary waste.

HEALTHY MINDS

SAFETY

Simone Gold and America’s Frontline Con Artists Launch a Road Trip

America's Frontline Doctors (AFLD) and Simone Gold, disgraced medical quack, take their medical carnival show on the road in an RV, just like Medicine men of old.

CARDIO

Nutrition Advice Keeps Changing — And What Never Changes

For decades we’ve been told to avoid eggs, butter, whole milk, and red meat. Then eggs were declared acceptable again. Butter quietly returned to many...

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Dr. Christiane Northrup on Medika’s Quack Scale

Dr Christiane Northrup scores 5 out of 5 on Medika's Quack Scale. She poses a high risk to both her patients and the general public and we recommend against following any of her advice.