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Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

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Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

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Overwork Is Rewiring Your Brain. Here’s What Neuroscience Wants You to Know

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Fifty of the Most Impactful Tech Innovators in Digital Health in 2021

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The Medika Life 50 – The Most Influential Voices in Health for 2022

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Overwork Is Rewiring Your Brain. Here’s What Neuroscience Wants You to Know

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For Leaders, When Is it Time to Speak Out for Science?

AI in Public Health: Revolution, Risk and Opportunity

Christopher Nial -

Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

Pat Farrell PhD -

Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

Michael Hunter, MD -

Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

Overwork Is Rewiring Your Brain. Here’s What Neuroscience Wants You to Know

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How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

Pat Farrell PhD -

Back to the Future of Medicine: The Physician Reimagined

Retreating from the Opportunity of a Century

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Beyond Data: Why Human Decisions Are Shaped by Facts, Feelings—and the Fire Within

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OPINION & IMPACT
HEALTH

For Leaders, When Is it Time to Speak Out for Science?

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Retreating from the Opportunity of a Century

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Beyond Data: Why Human Decisions Are Shaped by Facts, Feelings—and the Fire Within

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Trump’s Drug Price Gambit: Cheaper for America, But Who Pays the Price?

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How Real-World Evidence Proves the Power of Patient Engagement

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How the growing trade war could affect biopharma intellectual property

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‘They Won’t Help Me’: Sickest Patients Face Insurance Denials Despite Policy Fixes

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A Digital Turning Point in Migraine Care: CT-132 FDA Approval to Market is a Win for Patients and Proof that Clinical Evidence Matters

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Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson’s Health Wake-Up Call

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Empathy and Health Excellence — The Superpower of Care Delivery

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JUST FOR WOMEN

Health & Pregnancy

I Had an Emotionally Healing Vaginal Birth After my C Section. Why VBAC May Be Right For You, Too

The Hero Ingredients in Korean Skincare

Pro Tips to Reduce Your Stroke Risk

Your Body Ages in Leaps: Stanford’s Surprising Findings at Ages 44 and 60

Hot Flash Hack: The Latest Breakthrough for Menopausal Relief

A Cycling Accident Saved My Life

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

KEEP IN TOUCH

The Top 10 Public Health Policy Issues for Election Year 2024

Benchmark KFF Survey: Annual Family Premiums for Employer Coverage Rise 7% to Nearly $24,000 in 2023

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

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

The Role of AI in Human Well-being and Mental Health: Exploring Two Crucial Dimensions

Atefeh Ferdosipour - November 14, 2023

What dimensions of human, psychology world be studied to use in ai technologies to get more happier life?

How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

May 23, 2025

Punish the Lazy Obese, Shower Shame on Them, and Refuse Disability Benefits to Them?

May 1, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

UBQ Materials to Showcase Resource Recovery Solution at COP28 in First Ever Waste and Resource Pavilion

Medika Life - November 29, 2023

Joining the Israel Delegation for Third Year, UBQ Materials’ COP28 Participation Features Blue Zone Presentation in UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub Pavilion

The Recycling Lie – How Corporations Duped Us Into Drowning in Plastic

April 28, 2024

Climate Change Has an Underbelly Few Are Considering

March 6, 2022

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EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 3, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Hysteroscopic Myomectomy, an easy way to remove submucosal uterine fibroids.

Preparing for: Colposcopy

June 25, 2020

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Vaccination Roundup — What You Should Know

Michael Hunter, MD - September 20, 2022

WITH THE COVID PANDEMIC, IT IS EASY TO FORGET about vaccines targeting other illnesses.

The Diabetes Epidemic: A Pressing Public Health Catastrophe

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - November 5, 2024

The economic impact of Type 2 diabetes is staggering. The time for half-measures and incremental change is long past.

Walgreens Launches Clinical Trial Business to Address Industrywide Access and Diversity Challenges and Redefine Patient Experience

Medika Life - June 16, 2022

Walgreens today announced the launch of its clinical trial business to redefine the patient experience and increase access and retention in sponsor-led drug development research.

Digital Health AI and Innovation Summit to Gather in Boston this Fall

Medika Life - May 3, 2024

The digital health sector has its ups and downs! Some judge its success by investment dollars and others by market sales. This...

HEALTHY MINDS

Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

June 1, 2025

Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

June 1, 2025

How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

May 23, 2025

Beyond Data: Why Human Decisions Are Shaped by Facts, Feelings—and the Fire Within

May 21, 2025

Death Is Not A Failure

May 15, 2025

Cancer Isn’t Random: What 42% of Diagnoses Have in Common — and How You Can Lower Your Risk.

May 2, 2025

When Is Exercise Not Exercise, and Is That Good Enough?

May 2, 2025

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

How Geert Vanden Bossche is Destroying American Herd Immunity

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - May 8, 2021

Geert Vanden Bossche presents a real and present danger to America's covid vaccination program. Data shows the growing reach and influence he enjoys in the US and Canada

Kratom, the Undiluted Truth. Is it a Dangerous Drug or a Godsend?

December 12, 2020

What You Need to Know About Omega-3 Fatty Acids

March 26, 2021

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

This 5-Minute Habit Could Help Prevent a Dangerous Heart Condition.

Michael Hunter, MD - April 23, 2025

At 7:28 a.m., the sidewalk was still damp from last night’s Seattle area rain. I stepped outside, tea still warming my throat, and began walking...

Beans Are Now the Super Food That We All Need, So Get Ready for a New Diet

March 13, 2025

Multivitamins and Longevity: A Data-Driven Deep Dive

February 26, 2025

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

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

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 4, 2021

Reiner Fuellmich is the Covid Conspiracy theorist spreading fake news across the internet. We call him out on his latest nonsensical article published recenty.

Dr Joseph Mercola on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 17, 2020

The Dirtiest Dozen. Meet The Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Covid Health Grifters

May 2, 2021